President-elect Donald Trump is expected to be relieved from his criminal prosecutions as he makes his return to the Oval Office, but pending appeals in civil cases might be his only hope to break free from more than a half-billion dollars in civil judgments against him.
Trump is poised to owe more than $500 million in penalties due to New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James‘s civil fraud case and two defamation lawsuits brought by former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Without speaking about the nearly $500 million civil fraud case she brought against Trump, James made general comments about Trump’s election victory on Wednesday, saying New York is “prepared to fight back” if Trump made any attempts at “revenge or retribution” in light of the case against him.
“I am ready to do everything in my power to…
