The Daily Fuckup

By January 25, 2023, the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case against Donald Trump was still moving forward in state court. A Manhattan judge had denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the case on January 6, 2023, leaving the lawsuit in place while the parties continued pretrial litigation. ([ag.ny.gov](https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-sues-donald-trump-years-financial-fraud))

The lawsuit, filed on September 21, 2022, accused Trump, the Trump Organization, and several family members and executives of using false or misleading statements of financial condition over a span of years. The attorney general said the defendants inflated asset values to secure better loan terms, satisfy lending covenants, obtain insurance at lower premiums, and seek other financial benefits. Those were allegations in a complaint, not findings of liability on the January 25 date in question. ([ag.ny.gov](https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-sues-donald-trump-years-financial-fraud))

The January 6 ruling did not decide whether Trump was liable. It meant only that the case survived the first effort to end it at the pleading stage, so the legal fight continued instead of stopping on a motion to dismiss. As of the edition date, the core question remained unresolved: whether the financial statements at issue were fraudulent as the attorney general alleged. ([ag.ny.gov](https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/decisions/trump-decision.pdf))