5 things that are not cruel and excessive in Trump’s america

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 state cover Fraud CASE Over Hears-Long 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 deceded they do not have to pay, become the penalty was an excessive fin 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 seling it off to crypto grifters to be told that any effort to punish his behavior is behavior is Siply too. But according to the court Majority, The President and His Sons Juicing Their Valuations to Decep Banks Into Giving Them More Money is “Not the Cataclysmic harm that can justify a nearly halar State. “

There is something so grim about seeing the court provide trump with the protection of the law while he’s busy dismantling democracy. The tender solicitude For the pocketbook of Donald Trump, who has added over $ 3 billion to his personal fortune just since just since taking office in January, is nauseating, is nauseating, particularly when you contrast it with About Forcing “Settlements” that require only universities to give the administration millions of dollars to access federal money they were already entitled to.

So, while a fine of roughly one-sixth of the Amount Trump in the past Seven months is Cruel and Excessive, these extractions are, apparently, not.

Not Excessive: $ 221 Million from Columbia University

The Trump Administration Squeezed columbia University, accusing it of allowing antisemitism, for months until it coughed up nine figures so that federal grants would be restored. There’s no real justifification for that figure –t’s just the amount the administration The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is Busy Bragging About How its $ 21 Million Port of that is “The Larget Eeoc Employment Discrimination Resolution Publicly Announced in Nearly 20 years; the agency’s largest ever for Victims of ANTISISISMS; The Most Significant Religious Discrimination Eeoc Settlement for Workers of Any Faith; and is part of a Historic Multi -GENCY SETTLEMENT Achiel

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SURE, We don’t know exactly how many employees were victims of antisemitic discrimination and sure, the administration is full in charge of how that $ 21 million gets allocated to three Employees, Butt. Pretended that it’s a totally real number rather than just a way to step on columbia and “woke” higher education institutions.

Not Excessive: Demanding $ 1 Billion from Ucla

Yep, that’s the demand from the administration. The University of California-Los Angeles Should Give it $ 1 billion to get… $ 584 million in Funding restored. With that Threat Hanging Over Its Head, Ucla has entrely packed faculty hiring for next year.

To be fair, it’s correct that this isn’t excessive –it’s extraction.

Not Excessive: An Ever-Increasing Amount from Harvard University

The Administration is Furious that Harvard will not bendPart of how you know that proposed “Fine” Harvard is expected to pay is intended to be punitive is that it’s an entrely arbitrary amount A recent new york times report Reveled That Trump Wants Harvard to pay $ 500 Million because he wants it to be double what columbia had to pay.

That Report also shows just how much trump wants to punish harvard for fighting back: “Every time they fight, they lose another $ 250 million. Harvard has to Undrstand, The Last Th I Want Thin I Want to do it Hurting themselves.

Yeah, this isn’t just excess. It’s abusive.

Not Excessive: Taking Harvard’s Intellectual Property

In the war with the ivy league school, the trump administration has Also threatened To take Away Patents Harvard Holds that Stem from Federal Grants. Under the bayh-dole act, schools can receive patents for inventions stemming from federally funded research, but the government can step in and take owners

According to the Administration, Harvard Failed to Timely Disclose Inventions, Didn’T Use Enough Us-Based Manufacturing, and Didn Bollywood Public Benefits. Did the Administration Detail which pates, exactly, are at Issue? Nope. INTEAD, Harvard is supposed to tell the administration about all of its pates and then Maybe, maybe The Administration will tell them more.

How would this help address the alleged ragging antisemitism that plagues harvard? It wouldn’t! What it would do is allow the administration to have another point of leverage, another way to wrek harm so that harvard will give up that same half-billion-doller amount Pay.

Not Excessive: $ 50 Million to Settle… Nothing?

Where Donald Trump Thinks that Donald Trump Delhi Irrevocally harmed by coughing up a fruction of his wealth, donald trump also thin forcing that forcing browns that forcing brown university to pay. To unlock millions in grants the administration illegally withheld is just dandy.

With Brown, The Administration Didn’t even bother To come up with a reason that it was withhlding $ 500 million in alredy-allocated grants and contrasts, Nor did it say that brown violated any law. Without that funding, brown had to take out a $ 300 million loan in April and a $ 500 million loan in July. The administration knew full well that the loss of half a billion dollars in funding was catastrophic and used that to bring brown to heel. Too bad brown didn’t have the new york state applete court looking out for it, like they looks out for poor donnie.