...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 02/17/2024:
Well, she's still his lawyer.
In his ruling, Judge Engoron noted that the only error the defendants conceded during the trial was the tripling of the size of the Trump Tower penthouse.
The judge also listed previous cases in which the Trump Organization had been found liable of fraud, arguing the more there is "evidence of defendants' ongoing propensity to engage in fraud", the more need there is to impose harsher penalties.
"This is not [the] defendants' first rodeo," Judge Engoron noted.
Throughout the trial, Mr Trump made unsubstantiated and derogatory statements about the attorney-general, claiming she was corrupt and racist.
He also attacked the judge and his clerk, resulting in the imposition of a gag order, which he subsequently violated.
Former New York federal prosecutor Mitchell Epner described the legal tactic Mr Trump's attorneys adopted as being a "scorched earth defence".
He argued the use of that strategy had backfired.
"To attack the court and the attorney-general in personal terms at every opportunity," likely gave rise to the court imposing the harshest possible financial penalties, Mr Epner said.
[...]
"Justice Engoron made it clear that he was not impressed by Donald Trump's attacks, that he takes those attacks as evidence that Donald Trump is highly likely to repeat all of the misconduct that he's already found."
ABC
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