(NewsInsights.org) – Fox legal analyst Kerri Kupec Urbahn joined anchor Brian Kilmeade on “Fox and Friends” on Wednesday, March 20, to discuss former President Donald Trump’s New York civil suit. Her analysis included several stunning declarations regarding the state’s legal system.
Kilmeade announced that, as of Wednesday, Trump had five days to pay a $454 million judgment against him levied by Judge Arthur Engoron. Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James brought the civil suit against Trump and the Trump Organization for deceptive business practices that overstated the tycoon’s net worth by as much as $2.2 billion annually from 2011 until 2021.
Kilmeade showed a clip of a Fox reporter asking Trump whether he felt “confident” that he could pay the $454 million judgment. The former president replied that he had built a world-class organization based on real estate holdings. He accused “a crooked judge and a crooked attorney general” of using a “rigged trial” in an attempt to strip away cash and assets. He vowed to continue fighting them.
Kilmeade asked Urbahn what this case might mean to average New Yorkers or other rich business people considering New York as a base of operations. He also asked the analyst what options Trump had left to avoid AG James seizing his assets.
Urbahn told the anchor and viewers that Trump had no options, in her opinion, because payment came due on Monday, March 25. She added, “If New York can abuse the law in this way against Donald Trump, […] what hope does the average person have?” She added her belief that New York had never employed their laws against anyone the way the state had pursued Trump and that the unprecedented civil prosecution constituted abuse.
The legal analyst pointed out that if the state chose to sue a “powerful,” “wealthy,” respected individual with “unlimited resources” like Trump, it would not hesitate to prosecute the ordinary folks. Urbahn concluded, “Whether you’re a Republican or an American, if you don’t have a free and fair justice system, […] you don’t have a free country.”
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