Judge Tanya Chutkan – who is presiding over the DC case – has scheduled an October 16 hearing with prosecutors and defense counsel for Trump on the proposed limited gag order. While Judge Arthur Engoron’s order Tuesday was specifically aimed at social media posts Trump had made earlier about his clerk, prosecutors in Washington, DC, have been warning a federal judge in several filings about Trump’s social media posts against court staff there, as well as potential witnesses in the case. The judge overseeing the New York civil trial against former President Donald Trump issued something prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith have been asking for in the federal election subversion case against Trump: a limited gag order on the former president. There would have been issues of fact as to what the value was.” He said, “Please, press, stop saying that I valued it at $18 million. The judge did nothing of the sort.Įngoron noted again in court on Monday that there were “significant” limitations on how the property can be used, and he said he had “specifically said” in the decision last week that “I'm not valuing or evaluating properties.” But Trump himself was wrong to suggest that the judge had agreed in court that Mar-a-Lago is worth even more than his financial statements claimed. Trump and his team are entitled to argue that the judge’s analysis is inaccurate. Trump lawyer Alina Habba sharply disputed this conclusion in court on Monday, saying that “we have experts, renowned experts, who have said that properties like Mar-a-Lago are worth over a billion dollars, $1.5 billion, and I assure you that there is a person out there that would buy that property, that spectacular property, for way over a billion dollars." He also noted that there are significant land use restrictions attached to the property, and he wrote that Trump’s financial statements, valuing Mar-a-Lago at roughly $426.5 million to $612.1 million between 20, are “materially false and misleading” because they don’t reflect those restrictions. In Engoron’s decision last week finding Trump liable for fraud, he wrote that “from 2011-2021, the Palm Beach County Assessor appraised the market value of Mar-a-Lago at between $18 million and $27.6 million.” Judge Arthur Engoron and a lawyer for James’ office did not endorse a Trump lawyer’s Monday claim in court that Mar-a-Lago could be sold for more than $1 billion. There has been no such agreement in court. Trump was claiming, therefore, that the court had agreed the Florida property is worth $900 million to $1.8 billion.įacts First: Trump’s claim is false. Seth Wenig/APīefore former President Donald Trump appeared in court Tuesday for the second day of his civil fraud trial in New York, he claimed on social media that it has now “been agreed in Court that Mar-a-Lago is WORTH 50 to 100 times the Value” New York Attorney General Letitia James had ascribed to it, $18 million. Trump speaks to the media before entering the courtroom on Tuesday, October 3.
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