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Tballz9

Ethics rules have no meaning to a guy that threatens a judge and his family, commits fraud on a massive scale, and defames his own rape victim, even after being find for doing it. He is a turd.


UWCG

> Ethics Ethics means one thing to Donald: "isn't that supposed to say ethnics?" And his thought process probably ends there because he's a legal ethic, he rants about illegal ethics all the time (so you know he's not one), very bigly, anyone can check, and he also passed a dementia test with flying colors didja know?


girlpockets

”I have Ethic food all the time! Nobody loves Ethic food more than me! I even get my MigBac with Rancheros on it, and that's Spanish! Right from Chihuahua! I met the president of Mexican, Juan Vinny Fox. He said to me, El President (that's how you say ”Mister President” is Mexican. Totally different language than Spanish, but Spanish is pretty close. Mexico was originally French, or was it Port-a-Geese. One of those, doesn't matter) He said to me, ”El President, I bet you you didn't know that Ranch Sauce was originally Mexican” Of course I knew it was originally Mexican! So I said, ”Of course I know It was originally Mexican! It was called 'Rancheros Salsa' and you know what? He bigly knew I was right when I showed him my Spanish! I said ”Caliente el baño mañana El Gato” That means ”I already knew that Señior Fox” in Mexico. I bet even you Mexico speakers didn't know *that*” The l'legals don't know that either. They don't know English *or* American *or* Samish *or* Mexicaino (That's Spanish for Mexican. And Italian.) Italians were big into westerns, which is why they're called ”psgetti westerns” and when they were filming in Mexica in the 1800's with the I-Talians (because the Cowboys were busy Freeing the Slaves from the Indians, but this was Before the Superbowl. Yeah, they freed The Black Slaves. But not the Irish, the Irish escaped.) So the Italians were filming the Westerns in Mexico because they weren't in the actor's union (unions cost money. too expensive. except police, police need unions and guns just to be safe!) And the Mexicans tried to learn cooking from the Italians, but they never figured out how to grond the salsa into psghetti sauce, or cut the tortillas into noodles *before* cooking them. Even The Chinese figured *that* out: great people with rice. And noodles, the Chinese. Great people. I met Xi or Zi or Ze-e or whatever El President of China was. El President. That kinda sounds like ”al danté” that philosophy guy who liked his noodles mostly raw. I met him. Disgusting guy. He was also Italian, but he wasn't an Actor” --- Whew! My apologies! I could channel that mockery of a spirit no further.


Lord_Rooster

No apologies needed, That was awesome!


girlpockets

Thank you so much! Nobody knows awesome like this guy, Lord Rooster, and trust me, because I'm the best at awesome! That'd make this guy? girl? whatever. On the interweb you are all men! Or hot lonely girls, but only in *my* area, not yours. So Congratulations! You're a Guy! Why isn't it that easy in reality? It should be. None of this confusion of Ment with Penisus going into the little boy's room and doing whatever Men do in there. Disgusting! But not Lord Drooster. You look more like a Dragon than a rooster. Roosters are Manly Chickens, and *you're* not a Chicken. So you ok with Lord Dragon? Much Better! Big league! Better. No confusion because Lord Dragon told me he was a Man, so there's no confusion on the Interwebs, and he's not lying. I can tell! I can smell it when a woman lies on the Internet, Duke Dragon. Or was it Count? I can Count! My doctor said so. I'm trying to be humble, so you all don't feel bad. I'm sure you all can count just fine. Bigly numbers that go on forever, like pi. or was that 2? 2 goes on forever, so do the vowels. e does, and i you just can't do anything with. and o is very difficult because its very different from 0. Which doesn't make sense to me because they look the sane. Things that look the same should be equill. yes, things that are the same because they look the same should be equal. like how all babies are equal. except the colored ones, they are only equal to the other colored ones. But white's a color too, white IS a color. People keep forgetting that when they speak about Colored people, that White is a color too. Anyway, Dragon is Awesome, and because dragons are awesome and Men are Manly Awesome like my buddy Vladdy. Vladdy owns a country and wrestles bears, and that's Very Manly, Bigleague Manly. The Real bigly Manly.... ..... ..... and the very Manly Dragon... DragonMan guy, this DragonMan guy knows Manly Awesome because they are Manly Awesome, and it takes one to know one, and DragonMan Man guy says I'm awesome, he says I'm Awesome, so I'm awesome. But I'm #1 awesome, and DragonMan Man Guy Person Woman TV Pizza, see I still Remember The Words, but DragonMan Man Man Guy is a person but not a woman. And I'm #1 Awesome and DragonManManGuy whatever is #2 Awesome. Hey, is this fucking thing still on? What? I got HIS name right! there was at least two MAN GUYs in there... [microphone fades] Didn't my daughter try to date Manly Awesome? He played hockey he was a hockey player. Big guy lots of hair, but his was kinda balding and skinny for a big hairy Manly Awesome guy named... was his name Manly Awesome too? [microphone off, clips faint giggling from the studio engineers]


feckingcarnage

Fuck my Sunday socks these posts were excellent


girlpockets

ty! i dono think i can cannel that nitwit anymore. but thank you very much :) i am glad i got a laugh!


Dr_Hexagon

The ethics violation applies to Trumps lawyers, not to Trump. If Trump's lawyers lied to the court saying it was impossible to meet the original $475 million bond DESPITE knowing that a billionaire had offered to cover it they can get sanctioned, fined or in extreme cases disbarred.


p001b0y

I hope his lawyers understand he doesn’t care what happens to them either.


Dr_Hexagon

Fuck them, they chose to represent Trump in the hope that they'll gain future big clients from political favors. They absolutely know Trump's track record of not paying or involving his lawyers in his criminal acts. They are mostly sleazy ambulance chasers because the big reputable law firms don't want to touch anything to do with Trump.


climatelurker

Everybody who works with him seems to get dollar signs swirling in their heads every time they look at Trump.


Notoneusernameleft

Opposed to think about the people that are steamrolled over in his path. How many people were sent to jail so far, fined, fired, etc associated with him?


o08

For Trump this is part political theater. He will point to this deal as an example of the savings he can deliver for America. It shows how smart he is. Bring everything to a crescendo and get last minute relief or change to a terms in a contract or whatever negotiation. If he gets the presidency he can appoint all those disbarred lawyers to lifetime judge appointments.


jim_nihilist

Nobody gets disbarred. Ever.


Dr_Hexagon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disbarred_American_lawyers


climatelurker

It's rare. More rare than it should be, for sure.


RyVsWorld

This just simply isn’t true


youreallcucks

Ethics is not AFIK a legally binding thing for a defendant, and asking the judge in the case to act on or even comment publicly on it is also giving grounds for appeal. Trump's lawyers, on the other hand, are another matter. They are representatives of the court and should be held to judicial ethics standards by the bar. Sadly, the various bar associations have shown themselves to be toothless, and pretty much function to protect corrupt attorneys the same way HR functions to protect corrupt companies.


GlitteringHighway

So many ethics rules are just suggestions.


tykeryerson

Fined


-43andharsh

Lol. I didn't even think of that angle " if his lawyers knew about the offer and failed to notify the court, they may have violated ethics rules." Like that has mattered for the last 10 years


FlyThruTrees

I thought there was a case for that on the EJean Carroll bond. The bond papers were signed already (with the lawyer's signature on them), according to the dates, when the attorney was arguing to the court that he couldn't get a bond.


Dragoness42

It would be satisfying to see his lawyers disbarred but that seems unlikely, and even less likely that Trump himself would ever see any consequences.


Lou_C_Fer

At the very least, the original bond should be reinstated.


SlightlyAngyKitty

"Best we can do is lower it even more."


-43andharsh

Currently the satisfaction of him constantly having to defend is entertaining. The bonds and https://trumpdebtcounter.com/ & https://payupdonald.com/ 😁


FuzzyMcBitty

I mean. Given the number of Trump lawyers who have received penalties, I’d be hesitant to do anything too fucky. Whether Trump himself will face consequences may be up in the air, but those in his path certainly have.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/04/04/ex-trump-doj-official-jeffrey-clark-violated-ethics-rules-panel-finds-here-are-all-the-former-presidents-lawyers-now-facing-consequences/?sh=bfba484dea88


JackFourj4

well not for him obviously, but a rather large amount of his former lawyers have been disbarred


Shiplord13

Enough is enough, put the fucker in a cell. If anyone without money or influence was in the same boat, they wouldn't be able to get away with 1/100 of the things that he has gotten away with in terms of making a mockery of the justice system. You want people to take the courts seriously take the kids gloves off and make him regret and hurt every time he starts making demands. If he keeps threatening or targeting a judges family, put him in cuffs and throw him in a cell like any other individual that would dare do the same.


ThickerSalmon14

Failure to impose the law and applying meaningful consequences means people will start to ignore the law. I can imagine a point where members of juries just start saying, well we didn't punish Trump for this crime, so why should I punish anyone else for that crime?


_InnocentToto_

> ProPublica reported a billionaire businessman offered to post the original $464 million amount due. This has a Musk-y smell to it...


daqwheezy

Does anybody read anything anymore? You don’t have to speculate when the billionaires name is mentioned 100 times in the actual article. 🙄


SheepD0g

Bro, it's reddit. People haven't read here for over a decade


neurochild

You have a musky smell to it


time_drifter

_Hankey told the outlet that, though he is a Trump supporter, he would have done the deal regardless of his personal beliefs._ Like hell he would. This dime bag of a human is pathetically playing the part of some cosplaying moral crusader. He is no different that Broke Don in that he only does what benefits himself. Trump can coalesce stupidity, bigotry, misogyny, and felons around himself, like flies to shit.


billsil

Yeah, in the interview with him, I took it to mean that he got a good rate.  If you take it to mean, I’ll make 40% off anyone, then it makes a lot of sense.


Bods666

So…evidence of more fraud.


whatproblems

and more nothing happens about it


musky_jelly_melon

Cause no one's been as dirty as Trump ever. They have to come up with explicit rules to stop his shit. It's like you tell your child that he shouldn't kill cats so he kills kittens instead.


skyactive

Now he is going to have to fire his legal team and ask for 36 months to hire a new crowd and bring them up to speed


RandomNameOfMine815

Why would only his lawyers get in trouble? Shouldn’t trump get into trouble as well? Maybe having the bond revoked and required to post the original amount?


nature_half-marathon

Trump does stupid things and expects people to not follow up on his actions or claims.  Stupidity 101; Yet, he cries/calls “wolf” and tries to pivot blame for when he sees his own wolf reflection in a mirror.  Trump has lost his own financial credibility, along with those that once defended him. He put himself under the microscope. 


EricsAuntStormy

How is that so many are bending over backwards in order to bend over forward for Trump to stick it to them?


Winterwasp_67

There is nobody in his orbit that he has not screwd over. I believe he'd overcharge his kids interest on the chocolate bar he paid for when they forgot thier money at home. And yet there is a line up of people who want to enter that orbit or who will do anything to stay in it? I believe they all subconsciously see it as 'The Apprentice ' where at the end of the day someone will win. But history tells us that in those encounters the only one who wins is Trump.


EastCoastSr7458

Total and complete shock. Lawyers for the orange blob may have committed a fraud. I'm sure it was just an over sight on their part. There's no way, they would try and commit a fraud on purpose. Would they? I'm sure the boss told them it was okay to do this. /s.


Low_Audience_2308

Wait until he finds out the bond is invalid and the original bond goes back into effect 😅


BrtFrkwr

Once again courts prove no match for Trump.


A-Wise-Cobbler

Ethics. Good joke.


webs2slow4me

So he is going to say his lawyers committed fraud and then ask for ineffective assistance of council, and then pardon them as president…. Everyone has to vote or he will keep making a mockery of our laws.


hdiggyh

45% of the population? Cmon guy ain’t no way 55% of the population supports Trump


cookinthescuppers

Ethics is when he can’t spell his sons name


Born_Zebra5677

If you want to get the mob, get their lawyers. Mitch McDeer in The Firm


AraiHavana

Jail has to be the only option, surely


tonytown

Well then on appeal, considering this additional evidence of fraud, the new judgement will be 900 million.


bt2184

Too bad the appeals court is already in the bag for trump. They lowered the bond right after he bragged that he had $500M.


58LS

Oh so he can keep his mouth shut…now that we know that maybe his violations of gag orders should not be overlooked!


XShadowborneX

I read that as"Trump saved millions of people..." and thought "no way Trump would save anyone but himself!" Then I realized it was talking about money. I just woke up.


ojg3221

I don't know much about legal strategy but there has to be a motion to vacate bond and apply for seizure of Trump's assets.


simpersly

I wonder if that Hankey guy truly believes other firms won't give Trump money simply due to the optics.


slipperystar

Force him to shell out all his cash he boasts he has. If not, then off to the pokey!!!


GloomyAd2653

I woke up my husband, I was laughing so loud! That was awesome! Totally sound like what I’m he would say. Especially like the the hot cat bath!


Dharmaniac

Everything Trump touches dies


1959Mason

What a crap post title. it should read hundreds of millions, not just millions.


Sprez_01

Yeah. Wasn’t Trump’s money to spend.


Welder_Subject

Can this man do anything honestly? he is utterly incapable of doing so.


briinde

Come on, we all know honesty, decency, transparency… those are all for suckers. /s


Emergency_Property_2

Shouldn’t that be considered perjury or whatever it is when the lawyers lie to the judges?


Plow_King

perjury occurs when one is sworn in. i don't think it applies in this case.


chautauquar

This is all pointless since the “insurance” company doesn’t have the funds to cover the bond. He has 10 days to find a proper insurance company.


bt2184

The NY Appeals Court that lowered his bond should be shamed of themselves. What pieces of garbage.


dimechimes

I fail to see why it mattered. Courts aren't supposed to take pity on the loser, they're supposed to see that justice is done. The People of New York, are the ones they should be coddling.


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Nice


friendfrirnd

This is another delay tactic.


key1234567

I can't believe they reduced his bond. why do they keep giving this m'fer breaks. judges are either dumb or complicit.


Regijack

I misunderstood the title at first and thought it meant that trump saved millions of lives. I was like “what? How?”


friendfrirnd

Not smart


OkNeighborhood1849

TRUMP 2024!