Former President Donald Trump was enraged when he emerged from Mar-a-Lago’s iron gates Friday night to rant about the $354 billion judgment against him in the civil fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
“So, I just want to say this,” Trump began. “You build a great company. There was no fraud. The banks all got their money 100%. They love Trump. They testified that Trump is great, great customer, one of our best customers. They testified beautifully. And the judge knows that. He’s just a corrupt person. And we knew that from the beginning.”
Trump shifted his attention on to James, migrants, and the “radical left,” but not before he got in a few more shots at Judge Arthur Engoron, who issued the ruling:
“So, we realized that he ruled against me before even got the case. He ruled against me, he said I was guilty, he didn’t know what I was guilty of before he even got the case. And Letitia James, that’s another case altogether. She’s a horribly corrupt attorney general, and it’s all having to do with election interference.
There were no victims, because the banks made a lot of money. They made $100 million. And by the way, I paid approximately $300 million in taxes as the migrants come in and they take over New York, I paid over this period of years over $300 million in taxes and they want me out. “Oh, let’s see if we can get him out.” These are radical left Democrats, they’re lunatics, and it’s election interfering.”
Trump claimed that if he weren’t running for president, “None of this stuff would have ever happened” and that he would have had “a nice life”:
“They’re using this as weaponization against a political opponent who’s up a lot in the polls and always will be because I’m competing with a man who can’t put two sentences together, who doesn’t know what he’s doing. And we’re heading into a third world war because of this guy. We have to win this election. They’re doing everything possible to step in the way, but we’re not going to stand for it.
So, thank you very much. We will get back to work. It’s a ridiculous award, a fine of $355 million for doing a perfect job. For having paid back a loan with no defaults, with no problems.”
After Trump wrapped up, CNN anchor Brianna Keilar said, “And that is the lack of remorse that Judge Arthur Engoron referred to as near ‘pathological‘ in his ruling that came out today.”
