Trump avoids 'corporate death penalty,' but his business will still get slammed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump lawyers have said they will appeal.
49% : "I don't think there is any way Trump can continue to operate his business as usual," said Syracuse University law professor Gregory Germain.
45% : Luckily for Trump, he has cut his debt by hundreds of millions in recent years and so won't need to refinance as much.
44% : "Two obvious candidates to help Trump maintain control, his two adult sons, are already off-limits.
42% : Rebecca Blackwell / APRepublican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla.By Bernard Condon, Associated PressFriday, Feb. 16, 2024 | 10:03 p.m.NEW YORK -- Donald Trump won't face the corporate death penalty after all.
37% : In any case, Trump already has enough in cash to pay much of that penalty, assuming he is telling the truth about his finances.
35% : Trump and his businesses were told they would have to pay $355 million for "ill gotten gains."
31% : Still, only banks appear banned in the ruling, leaving Trump free to borrow from fast-growing alternative financiers, the private equity and hedge funds that make up the so-called shadow banking world.
29% : Trump is also required to pay interest from the dates when he received benefits from his alleged fraud.
29% : Trump may be removed from the corner office, but as an owner of the business his right to appoint someone to act on his behalf has not been revoked.
26% : "Not even the New York attorney general, who filed the lawsuit against Trump, had asked for a "dissolution.
25% : Still, Trump got slammed hard, facing big cash penalties, outside supervision of his companies and restrictions on his borrowing.
25% : "In his ruling, Engoron banned Trump from serving as an officer or director in any New York corporation for three years, prohibited him from taking out loans with New York banks and said his company and other defendants have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.
17% : Trump is also banned from getting loans from New York-chartered banks, a potentially devastating blow given so many major lenders are based in the city.
16% : A New York judge on Friday spared the ex-president that worst case punishment as he ruled in a civil case alleging Trump fraudulently misrepresented financial figures to get cheaper loans and other benefits.
16% : Trump separately was hit with $88 million in judgments in sexual abuse and defamation lawsuits brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.

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