The New Yorker:

Among them: the former President is trying to undermine the court system, and prosecutors shouldn’t put too much faith in Michael Cohen. 

By John Cassidy 

On Thursday morning, a day after being fined ten thousand dollars for violating a gag order at his New York civil trial, Donald Trump was back home in Florida doing precisely what got him sanctioned in the first place: ranting away on social media. He stated that the judge who fined him, Arthur F. Engoron, “HAS GONE CRAZY IN HIS HATRED OF ‘TRUMP.’ ” And he gloated about his lawyers tripping up his nemesis Michael Cohen on the witness stand, commenting, “It was like watching the end of the best Petty Mason episode, where the defendant breaks down and cries, ‘Yes, I did it, I did it, I did it.’ ”

The actual defendants in the case are Trump, two of his sons, and a pair of former senior executives in the Trump Organization. In a pretrial judgment late last month, Engoron decided the key issue in the case, ruling that the defendants committed fraud by inflating the value of Trump’s properties on financial-disclosure forms that they submitted to banks and other institutions. The trial, now nearing the end of its fourth week, is proceeding on additional counts and possible penalties, for which Letitia James, the New York attorney general, is seeking a fine of up to two hundred and fifty million dollars and a lifetime ban on Trump serving as an officer or director of any business in New York. 

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