NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Thursday threw out President Donald Trump’s massive financial penalty while narrowly upholding a judge’s finding that he engaged in fraud by exaggerating his wealth for decades. The ruling spares Trump from a potential half-billion-dollar fine but bans him and his two eldest sons from serving in corporate leadership for a few years.

Trump claimed “TOTAL VICTORY" in the case, which stemmed from a civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

“They stole $550 million from me with a fake case and it was overturned," Trump said, echoing his earlier social media post as he addressed police in Washington, D.C. “They said this was a fake case. It was a terrible thing.”

James, a Democrat, focused on the parts of the decision that w

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