Former President Donald Trump owes an additional $87,502 in post-judgment interest every day until he pays the $354 million fine ordered by Judge Arthur Engoron in his civil fraud case, according to ABC News’ calculations based on the judge’s lengthy ruling in the case.

Judge Engoron on Friday fined Trump $354 million plus approximately $100 million in pre-judgment interest in the civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, after he found that Trump and his adult sons had inflated Trump’s net worth in order to get more favorable loan terms. The former president has denied all wrongdoing and has said he will appeal.

Engoron ordered Trump to pay pre-judgment interest on each ill-gotten gain – with interest accruing based on the date of each transaction – as well as a 9% post-judgment interest rate once the court enters the judgment in the case.

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    9 months ago

    Okay, I hope you never end up breaking any rule in our rules-based society, because I ain’t bailing you out.

    Quick question: What are your thoughts on Hunter Biden?

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      He should probably be in jail, and definitely on some sort of drug rehab program.

      Also, you gotta wonder what sort of shitty dad Joe was for his son to turn out the way he did.

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        So forgiving past crimes with no victims is only for Trump then?

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          So those underage prostitutes he filmed himself doing drugs and having sex with don’t count as victims then? Good to know.

          How about Joe should be in jail for whatever he did to make Hunter this way, and Hunter should be in closed rehab. My guess is he probably IS a victim of his father in some way, so I’m willing to spare him from prison, but he probably shouldn’t have any access to drugs or unsupervised contact with children or teens.

          Does that sound fair?

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            How about Joe should be in jail for whatever he did to make Hunter this way

            The party of personal responsibility everybody!

            What did Joe do? Or should Joe be in jail for the crimes you imagine he did, while Trump shouldn’t be fined for the crimes he definitely did?

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              Hunter is a drug addict, a sex addict, and a pedophile. I imagine you don’t just magically turn out that way if you had a great and unproblematic childhood, but I suppose child abuse isn’t technically illegal unless it’s violent, so… yay Joe?

              Anyways, I fail to see how holding Trump accountable while defending your own guy from accusations is supposed to teach me a lesson on how responsibility is supposed to work. Isn’t that precisely the same behavior you’re accusing me of?

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                Anyways, I fail to see how holding Trump accountable while defending your own guy from accusations is supposed to teach me a lesson on how responsibility is supposed to work. Isn’t that precisely the same behavior you’re accusing me of?

                That precisely what you’re doing right now. That’s the point. You’re excusing Trump of convicted crimes for which he has to pay a fine, and at the same time you’re ready to jail Biden for crimes you have imagined. If there was an actual crime then present actual evidence. You know, like the Prosecution did in Trump’s trial: presented overwhelming evidence of crime.

                Everyone ITT: “unreasonable and excessive punishment is great as long as it happens to someone I hate”

                It’s always projection.

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                  Okay, forget Joe. Let’s focus on Hunter then, because there’s plenty of evidence on that laptop.

                  Some of the pictures show naked girls who are clearly underage in sexually suggestive poses. That’s evidence of child exploitation, sexual abuse, and potentially possession of child pornography and statutory rape.

                  Those are all definitely crimes. Should he stand trial for that? Or are you comfortable letting that one slip by the wayside because it’s just so unsightly and imagine the damage it would do to Biden’s image if this went to public trial and was covered in the media even at a fraction of the intensity that Trump gets.

                  But no, fuck those children, right? Who cares about what they went trough. What’s really important here is that Trump put some wrong numbers on a piece of paper (which the bank testified they didn’t believe ANYWAY) and nobody got hurt.

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                    Well according to you as long as those children say they’re okay with it there’s no victim and no crime right?

                    there’s plenty of evidence on that laptop.

                    If there’s evidence then fucking charge him with a crime already. Let the courts look at the evidence and decide. I don’t know why he’s being charged in the court of public opinion, instead of an actual court.