{"id":1652227,"date":"2022-09-21T21:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T01:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652227"},"modified":"2022-09-21T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T01:51:08","slug":"bill-barr-reveals-what-he-thinks-will-happen-next-in-letitia-james-civil-lawsuit-against-the-trump-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-reveals-what-he-thinks-will-happen-next-in-letitia-james-civil-lawsuit-against-the-trump-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Barr Reveals What He Thinks Will Happen Next In Letitia James\u2019 Civil Lawsuit Against The Trump Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-barr-reveals-what-he-thinks-will-happen-next-in-letitia-james-civil-lawsuit-against-the-trump-family%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652227&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former U.S. Attorney General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/william-barr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Barr<\/a> said Wednesday that he does not believe that New York Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/letitia-james\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letitia James<\/a>\u2019 civil lawsuit against the Trump family is going to go anywhere, and what convinced him that she overreached on the case was that she decided to go after his children as well.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ny-ag-files-fraud-suit-against-donald-trump-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">targets<\/a>\u00a0the former president, his business, and many associates. In addition to the former president, the lawsuit targets Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Allen Weisselberg, Jeffrey McConney, The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, The Trump Organization, Inc., and others.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit seeks to punish the targets with a $250 million penalty and a ban on operating any businesses in New York. James also seeks to ban Trump and the Trump Organization from purchasing any real estate in New York for the next five years. The New York attorney general is also referring her investigation into Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>When asked during a Fox News interview Wednesday what he thought would happen next in the case, Barr responded, \u201cWell, for one thing, she brought this as a civil case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a criminal case,\u201d Barr said. \u201cTo me, that says that she doesn\u2019t have the evidence to make a criminal case. So she\u2019s setting a lower bar and bringing this civil case. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to go any further. Now, it\u2019s over 200 pages long with a lot of details about the valuation of properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the fact of the matter is that real estate valuation of a complex real estate company like this is inherently very subjective. It depends what kinds of assumptions are used. Values can swing, depending on whether it\u2019s viewed as a property that\u2019s going to be split up or one that\u2019s kept together and so forth. So it\u2019s not an exact science,\u201d Barr continued. \u201cAnd the fact is that banks, sophisticated banks, don\u2019t rely on every jot and tittle in the financial statements. They do their own assessments. They make themselves comfortable. Sometimes, they automatically discount that kind of submission. And they didn\u2019t \u2014 no one \u2014 the loans were paid back. These were successful investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the banks were paid back,\u201d Barr added. \u201cSo, to have spent three years on this, seems to me, her trying to make good on a campaign promise that she was going to bring Trump down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: New York AG sues Trump over fraud allegations \u2013 Bill Barr, Fmr. U.S. AG, says the lawsuit is a \u201cpolitical hit job.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmericaReports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AmericaReports<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4kyYbNWM36\">pic.twitter.com\/4kyYbNWM36<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 America Reports (@AmericaRpts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericaRpts\/status\/1572651316748378121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tim Pearce contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Attorney General\u00a0William Barr said Wednesday that he does not believe that New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 civil lawsuit against the Trump family is going to go anywhere, and what convinced him that she overreached on the case was that she decided to go after his children as well. The lawsuit\u00a0targets\u00a0the former president, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}