Highlights: Former President Donald Trump relied on a Forbes article to “prove” his net worth when placing a bid to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills – a decade-old business move that came under scrutiny during his New York civil fraud trial on Tuesday.
K. Don Cornwell of Morgan Stanley testified in court that Trump distributed printouts from Forbes regarding the highest-paid entertainers to affirm his financial standing to Buffalo Bills executives after claiming a net worth of over $8 billion in an offer letter. The former president refused to disclose financial statements to bankers involved in his $1 billion bid for the football team in 2014.
That’s not really how crimes work afaik. You can’t just add an extra step and say you’re innocent. That’s like if I put a car in neutral at the top of a cliff and waited for someone else to bump into it and make it roll into somebody, then said they were guilty of murder, despite my intent clearly being murder/manslaughter.
I agree but we all know what you’ve described is exactly what trump thought.
And it’s certainly enough to give prosecutors pause when trying to bring a case.
Right, we’re all in agreement here but it does make you want to spell it out again due to the share madness of it all
This type of argument is why establishing motive is so integral to criminal prosecution.