Today is Tuesday, September 26, 2023. Today Trumpworld suffered another glancing blow when a New York judge found Donald Dumpf liable for fraud, plus his adult sons, saying the Trumps provided false financial statements for roughly a decade – with impunity – until now. This extraordinary decision is covered in an online article for CNN by Kara Scannell entitled “New York judge finds Donald Trump liable for fraud.”

Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling came days before the civil case involving the New York attorney general’s office and the former president was set to go to trial.

The bold judge granted Attorney General Letitia James’ motion for summary judgment, finding Trump, his dimwitted sons, and others “to be liable as a matter of law for persistent violations” of New York State law. He found the financial statements the Trumps provided to lenders and insurers for about a decade to be false and said they repeatedly engaged in fraud. The whole country knew this from the time former consigliere Michael Cohen testified before Congress about Dumpf inflating his assets and the various probes into the Dumpf’s tax documents by The New York Times that appeared years ago. Now finally justice is catching up to the Trump Organization for the malfeasance it conducted for years.

In the lawsuit, Tish James claims that Dumpf reaped a “substantial” financial benefit by putting forward faulty information in his financial statements, including $150 million in the form of favorable interest rates he obtained from the banks that the attorney general said his team misled.

Engoron said the remaining issues for trial are determining liability on other claims in the lawsuit, as well as how much Dumpf and the other defendants should pay. And let’s hope it’s through the teeth, everyone!

George Conway, the former husband of the blonde bimbo Kellyanne Conway, the architect of “alternate facts” at the launch of Dumpf’s initial disastrous administration, calls this decision against the criminal Trumps, “It’s essentially the equivalent of the corporate death penalty” against the Trump Organization.

This decision effectively prevents the Trump Organization from doing business in New York, so asserts Susan Craig who was interviewed by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi today. She confessed, “It is a huge loss for Donald Trump and a huge win for the attorney general. What the judge has found is that Donald Trump, on this main count, about the inflation of assets, that he’s found liable for that. They’ve determined he did, in fact, overvalue his assets again and again and again and again. And they’ve not only done that, the judge has called for the cancellation of all the defendant’s business certificates in New York.”

Another positive news story that occurred today was the coverage given to a sitting president who joined a picket line of autoworkers in Michigan for the first time ever. That president was Scranton Joe Biden who lent his support to striking autoworkers against the major auto companies, as he walked among them on the picket line today. This unprecedented visit by a sitting president to a workers’ picket line is the subject of a CNN online article by Kevin Liptak entitled “4 takeaways from Biden’s visit to the UAW picket line.”

The visit to workers here in Michigan underscored the president’s longtime commitment to a worker-centric economy, as opposed to his opponent, who is scheduled to make the same visit on the next day, but this time to a nonunion shop of autoworkers. This ghastly visit should be met with a chorus of boos from the workers, in my opinion. This visit was undertaken against the union’s recommendation, so Dumpf deserves all the opprobrium he gets.

Nearly as soon as the United Auto Workers (UAW) went on strike earlier this month, Biden voiced support for the workers, not the employers. Privately, he inquired about joining the picket lines himself.

He also faced some pressure from Democrats to appear proactive after publicly predicting earlier this month a strike wouldn’t come to pass.

It wasn’t until the union’s president formally invited Biden last week that he announced he would travel to Michigan on his way to a previously scheduled swing out west.

By then, the antiunion president known as Dumpf announced his own plans to visit the state.

Wearing a UAW ball-cap and speaking through a bullhorn, Biden’s overt support for the striking workers was a break from his predecessors’ attempts at neutrality. It offered the most explicit example yet of his bottom-up economic message – one focused on workers and not corporations.

The current president said, “Now they’re [the corporations] doing incredibly well. And guess what: You should be doing incredibly well, too.”

Speaking through a megaphone, Biden told picketers, “We saved them. It’s about time they step up for us.”

In contrast to the proworker president, the dickhead known as Dumpf will speak instead at a nonunion facility. The union doesn’t even consider Dumpf’s event at Drake Enterprises in Clinton Township, Michigan, to be standing in solidarity with the UAW. Again, let’s hope this political stunt by a consummate grifter goes unbelievably bad for him.

In a related story about the grifting Dumpfs, an online Raw Story article points the finger of blame to one of the dumb sons of Donald who is following in his father’s footsteps in regard to overinflating assets entitled “Eric Trump mocked for claiming Mar-a-Lago is worth over $1 billion – after judge says he lied,” by Sarah K. Burns.

In response to the judge saying that his father overinflated the price of properties to get better deals from banks, his son, Eric, complained that the Florida manse is worth over $1 billion. The judge valued it at more than $18 million. What a big difference that makes!

To try to prove his point, the younger scamster posted real estate listings of Palm Beach homes that total under $40 million. However, the proportions of his father’s estate no way exceed the dimensions for a $1 billion property.

Zillow, the online real estate registry, estimates Dumpf’s property to be worth possibly around $24, 150, 100.

As a result of Eric’s misinformation regarding his father’s Florida resort’s alleged worth, many on social media mocked the younger son for not buying into his inflated hype. One of those critics, radio host Ronan Martin tweeted, “Man, that trash ain’t worth a billion dollars. @EricTrump is a damn fool.”

The progressive group Meidas Touch similarly ridiculed Trump, pointing out the irony of his statement.

“Eric Trump just overvalued Mar-a-Lago in a tweet while responding to a ruling from a NY judge that held him, his brother, his father, and his employees liable for fraud related to the overvaluing of his properties. He’s doing exactly what just got his companies shut down,” the group said.

Today I learned to my sorrow the passing of actor David McCallum at the age of 90. I grew up with him and Robert Vaughan in that 60s spy television show, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which I watched religiously because of my attraction to his character, Russian agent Illya Kuryakin. In this series, McCallum was partnered with Robert Vaughan’s American Napoleon Solo. The actor’s biggest role in his later years came in NCIS in which he played the cast’s beloved father figure Chief Medical Examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallard. Unfortunately, I did not see many episodes of this crime series. I learned that McCallum appeared in 457 episodes of the series, which has run for 20 seasons to date.

Upon combing through his obituary on Entertainment, I discovered that he recorded four albums in the 1960s, one of which included the song “The Edge,” which Dr. Dre sampled to create the iconic opening of “The Next Episode.” The actor also published a novel in 2016, titled Once a Crooked Man. I think I have it, but haven’t read it yet.

His son, Peter McCallum, said in a statement, “He was the kindest, coolest, most patient and loving father. He always put family before self. He looked forward to any chance to connect with his grandchildren and had a unique bond with each of them. He and his youngest grandson, Whit, 9, could often be found in the corner of a room at family parties having deep philosophical conversations.”

Because of his myriad interests, McCallum was considered a true renaissance man. His son noted that his father was capable of conducting a symphony orchestra and (if needed) could actually perform an autopsy, based on his decades-long studies for his role on NCIS.

McCallum is survived by his wife of 56 years, Katherine, as well as his four children and his eight grandchildren.

After reading this very glowing obituary, I now have many more reasons to admire my old Russian agent, Illya Kuryakin. I believe that McCallum was the last surviving cast member of that old action series. Vaughan died in 2016. He was 83 when he died.

Stay safe and be well.