Former President Donald Trump is unlikely to have any success appealing the civil fraud decision handed down against him in New York last week, former White House ethics special counsel Norm Eisen told CNN on Monday.
Judge Arthur Engoron found Trump liable for more than $350 million in fines for systematically inflating his company's property valuations, and also temporarily limited his ability to do business in the state of New York. Trump attorney Alina Habba has already vowed to appeal the decision.
"How do you think Trump is likely to fare on this appeal?" asked anchor Wolf Blitzer.
"Poorly, Wolf," said Eisen. "The judge backed up his legal findings of fraud by the Trump Organization, Mr. Trump, and others, with a mountain of evidence and very sound legal reasoning."
"You can't say your home is about 30,000 square feet when it's about 10,000 square feet," said Eisen. "And the same kind of disparities are found on Trump's Seven Springs estate, Mar-a-Lago, 40 Wall Street, and on and on. The judge dropped the most controversial and problematic finding on his final order, and that was the corporate death penalty, yanking the certificates of doing business in New York. What's left is bulletproof."
The bottom line, said Eisen, is that "Trump is going to lose this appeal, very likely."
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