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-Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingraham. This is "The Ingraham Angle" from Washington tonight. Always one step ahead. That's the focus of tonight's angle. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Try and hope as they might. The legal forces in New York, Georgia, and D.C. are finding it harder and harder to accomplish their mission, which is to put Trump behind bars and/or bankrupt him before the election. Now, today, the New York appellate court slashed the obscene amount Judge Engaron ordered Trump to post to appeal the case from $454 million to $175 million. Now, the left's longtime fantasy was to see New York AG Letitia James personally slap padlocks on the front doors of Trump's prize real estate. Now, there was a palpable disappointment. I could hear it on the other cable nets. -Cristin, it's your understanding that Trump will be able to get this lower amount of cash together, but it is worth reminding everyone that up until the 11th hour today, when this ruling came down, they were struggling to find a way to pay that original bond amount. -Here we go again. He continues to defy gravity and catches another lucky break. -The notion that I would walk in there and have my, what I owed, knock down to a third of the judgment is ludicrous. I wouldn't even ask you if that would happen for me. Of course not. And the notion that he's got 11 more days is ludicrous. And I guess my question is, is there a breaking point? Or is this just what Trump will benefit from? Everybody always bending the rules and treating him differently? -That's hilarious. Well, CNN was so excited about today. They invested in a few lawn chairs for their guests outside the lower Manhattan courthouse. They thought it was going to be a different outcome. And, Nat, the Trump real estate graphics were still a favorite go-to. -175 is a lot more doable than more than half a billion dollars with interest piling up daily. -He probably does have this 175. This is, you know, a big break for him. It could have been much, much worse. More than $500 million could have been resulted in him not having to sell assets. -True, but the leading legal mind in the House of Representatives insists the ends justify the means. -I actually think that there is risk in not seizing these assets and the open window that exists in him trying to secure these funds through other means. We've seen a lot of interesting transactions happening with truth social and other means. And there's a very real risk of political corruptions. -She figured out that Rico thing, yeah. All right. Aha, the Trump exception to due process and basic fairness. Now, these people would attend candlelight vigils to protect the due process rights of illegals before deportation, but they're outraged that the system gives Trump any rights at all. -He's been around and survived all of these incredible, weighty legal and political issues, and he's still here, still here, still a free man. I have no explanation for this, Joe. -Well, if he can't wrap his cerebrum around that, he should stick to gabbing about the Red Sox. Yet another in the simpleton pundit category is Michael Steele, the failed former RNC chair. He, too, is stunned that the appellate court made a sane ruling posting, "Yet again, Donald Trump gets special treatment with his own private system of justice." This makes absolutely no sense. Well, what makes no sense is that comment. So, now, the never-Trumpers are so deluded, they actually, what, think the New York appellate court is MAGA, special treatment? The only people getting special treatment in New York are the thugs terrorizing people on the streets and getting away with it. -We have violent criminals that are murdering people, killing people. We have drug dealers all over the place, and they go free, and they can do whatever they want, but they go after Trump where there's not even a crime. -And the entire underlying judgment was disproportional from the outset. Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff's fraud was in the billions with tens of thousands of victims. Guess how much his bail was? $10 million. I know, that was a lot of years ago, you say. Well, how about Sam Bankman Freed? He was forced to cough up $250 million in bail money, but, again, he lost his investors billions. In Trump's case, the banks had done their due diligence in loaning him money, and there were no victims. Loans were paid back in full. But don't worry, ye on the deflated left. If there's someone who's gonna take the load off, it's Fani Willis. She says she's still on track to get the roadrunner. -Why that was going on, we were writing responsive briefs. We were still doing the case in the way that it needed to be done. I don't feel like we've been slowed down at all. I do think that there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming. -She doesn't sound political at all there. Now, you get the sense that all these people are running on fumes. Like a denture cream bond, a certain "G" word has been stuck on Biden for years. But now his surrogates think the big switcheroo is gonna work. -This is the same grift that he has run again and again and again, using other people's money for his own benefit. Well, often leaving his donors high and dry. -Well, I think that it's very clear that Trump is a grifter. That's just the way it is. These people who are so happy to give him money to pay his legal fees should at least be told that's where they're spending money. -Ah, I get it. But if only Nancy and Jen applied their concern to the omnibus bills, where there was a real problem with transparency, thousands of pages long, released the night before of a vote, or I guess that lack of transparency somehow works okay for them. Now, when these people ridicule and defame Trump, they really are just ridiculing and defaming the 74 million Americans who voted for him and those who will will again. They even try to mind-read their true thoughts. And to that point, perhaps the most moronic comment of the news cycle goes to this guy. -They know about all of the foolishness. They know about all of the corruption and everything that Donald Trump is. Joe Biden cannot win by saying Donald Trump's a bad guy because there's people who want the bad guy to be president. -Move over, Cicero. Bottom line here, Democrats have no affirmative agenda to restore America. It's just lawfare, racial division, and, of course, throwing some abortion-fear mongering. Of course, their guy can't be trusted to have a real press conference or do any non-friendly interview, no way. And, of course, Joe won't or can't debate. How can he defend his border? He can't. How can he defend the chaos abroad? He can't, but no problem. His surrogates do all the heavy lifting for him, and they include the corporate media. Their mantra is simple -- Trump is bad, and you're bad for wanting a bad man as president. And because he's bad and you're bad, we're justified in bending the legal and political system to make sure he doesn't even have the chance to be on the ballot come November. Oh, and, of course, he's Hitler, as well. And that's the angle.

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