Will the ex-president face a huge fine
Donald Trump launched his own sneaker brand the day after a New York judge ordered him to pay a $354.9 million fine dollars for fraudulently inflating your net worth in order to deceive creditors.
“I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time,” the former US president said as he unveiled Trump’s first official shoe in Philadelphia at the Sneaker Con event, which bills itself as “The Greatest Sneaker Show.” on Earth.”
He was greeted with loud whistles and cheers, the Associated Press reported. Attendees were younger and more diverse than the usual crowds at Trump rallies, News wire reported.
The shiny gold high-tops with an American flag design on the back are sold as Never Surrender High-Tops for $399 on a new website, which also sells Trump-branded Victory47 cologne and perfume for $99 a bottle. Trump would be the 47th president if he were elected again, The Guardian explains.
Trump later criticized Judge Arthur Engoron, who on Friday ordered him and his eldest sons and partners to pay more than $354.9 million plus prejudgment interest after finding them guilty of intentionally committing financial fraud during decades.
Addressing supporters for the first time since the ruling, the GOP White House nominee told thousands of supporters at a campaign rally in Michigan that the ruling was “a ploy to interfere with the election.”
Donald Trump said the judge was part of a “left wing” plot to prevent him from becoming president again, adding that “these disgusting abuses of power are not just an attack on me, they are an attack on all Americans.”
Trump too repeated his lie that his loss in the 2020 US presidential election to Democratic President Joe Biden was due to election fraud.
Judge Engoron also barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation for three years. The judge said of Trump and his co-defendants: “Their complete lack of remorse borders on pathological.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump and his family business of inflating his net worth by as much as $3.6 billion. a year for ten years to trick bankers into giving him better lending terms.
Trump also faces four state and federal criminal trials, including one set to begin in New York March 25, regarding alleged hush money payments to a porn star. This means Trump will become the first former US president to stand trial on criminal charges.
Trump spoke shortly after Nikki Haley, his last remaining rival for the Republican presidential nomination, held an event in the South Caroline.