Well, thank god justice has prevailed, and President Donald Trump and his family will not be forced to pay the $500 million penalty in the New York state civil fraud case over their years-long habit of providing inflated property valuations to banks and insurers. Sure, the New York state appellate court that threw out the penalty made sure to say that Trump and his companies did indeed engage in fraud—but decided they don’t have to pay, because the penalty was an excessive fine that violated the Eighth Amendment.

No, really.

Trump is making the rounds and bragging about it, and why wouldn’t he? It’s quite the gift to a president who is basically stripping the nation to the studs and selling it off to crypto grifters to be told that any effort to punish his behavior is simply too much. Bu

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