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 Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe New York Attorney General's office has asked the judge in Donald Trump's civil fraud case to reject the $175 million bond he obtained to stave off even steeper fines.
In a 26-page filing signed by Attorney General Letitia James, lawyers for the state argued that Trump, the Trump Organization, and its top executives had failed to prove that the management of the bond met the "requirements of trustworthiness and competence," and argued that Judge Arthur Engoron should find the bond to be "without effect."
The AG's office argued that California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company was a "small insurer that is not authorized to write business in New York" and had "never before written a surety bond in New York," before they penned the massive loan to Trump.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Jabin Botsford / GettyDonald Trump's defense team reportedly believes that young Black men will help save the former president from a guilty verdict.
Lawyers for the former president, who has the dubious distinction of being the first ex-commander in chief to be criminally tried, have been "hoping to spot sympathizers and will focus on younger Black men and white working-class men" as jurors, according to a recent New York Times report.
The notion that young Black men might be more easily persuaded than other jurors—less prone to critical thinking and seeing through the defense's smoke and mirrors—jibes perfectly with all the racist notions Trump has expressed over the years. Even in the midst of his own criminal trial, Trump's anti-Black racism remains on full display.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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