Day 982 – Summary Judgement

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Yesterday a judge ruled that one of the counts against the Trump Organization in New York was so clear and so compelling that there was no need for a trial and ordered the licenses of The Trump Organization to do business in New York to be pulled. The NY AG wants a fine of $250,000,000.00. This order said that neither Trump nor his two eldest sons could do business in New York for five or ten years. (I’ve heard both.)

This kind of action, where a judge rules without even having to go to trial is called summary judgement. (If I understand correctly.) It is rarely granted, but often asked for. However, the evidence was so strong the judge felt there was no need to go to trial. There are another seven charges that will be tried in connection with this case.

The assets of the Trump Organization will go into receivership and be sold off. Maybe, he can get bailed out by say a rich Saudi? I don’t know. Apparently, the Trump Organization’s primary wealth is in five building in New York. 

Trump tried to transfer his holdings to Delaware, but this was blocked by the AG.

Now what? 

I’m sure Donald is cranking up the nasty woman epitets. But the case is so clear he won’t have much to go on.

Oh well.

Moving on. As I read Cassidy Huthinson’s book I can hear her calm patient voice. I knew about the incident with Matt Gaetz at Camp David, but her recounting in the book makes it worse than what was said in one of her TV interviews. 

Cassidy and a bunch of others went back to Kevin McCarthy’s cabin to drink. There was a knock on the door. Kevin opened it. There was Matt, who was surprised to see Kevin. Matt straghtened up a bit and said he was looking for Cassidy because he noticed her golf cart out front.(He must have thought this was Cassidy’s cabin and that he might get lucky.) Cassidy came to the doorway and asked what he wanted. He said he saw her golf cart and was a little lost, could she walk him back to his cabin? No said Cassidy, just follow the circle around you’ll find it. Matt persisted a bit and Kevin said to Gaetz, “Get a life, Matt,” and slammed the door in his face.

Two things: I now understand why Matt is always disparaging Kevin and I guess this was Matt’s idea of a date with Cassidy.

Kevin btw comes out pretty well (so far, being one third of the way through the book).

At one point Cassidy relays what Mark Meadows told her to say to Kevin, which she did. Kevin told Cassidy that Mark was playing her (ie lying to her), and that she should call him when she realized that. He hung up. Cassidy called him a few days later.

UPDATE:

Thursday, September 28, 2023

I am 2/3 of the way through Cassidy Huchinson’s book “Enough.” I am surpised that Kevin McCarthy comes out quite well – so far. Liz Cheney does too. The rest? Not so well. You’ll be surprised to hear the Matt Gaetz is a sleaze who repeatedly tries to get close to Cassidy. Ted Cruz is a jerk. Ron DeSantis a whiner whom Cassidy had to tell that he needed to understand boundaries. Remember she’s 23 or 24 at this point in her life. Mark Meadows is a bit more compicated. He seems to be a coward and sneaky. Not necessarily towards Cassidy, although he lied to her one time that set her up to take a fall, whcih Kevin pointed out to her. She descried a normal day at the Trump Whitehouse as chaos. That’s a big change from “no drama Obama.”