You might be aware he refused to testify.
Why in the fuck do you think any sane person would care about that?
"well if some stupid minutia had happened then we wouldn't have taken a giant shit on the constitution, rule of law, and liberal democracy".
Your excuses DISGUST me.
However he was given a larger measure of justice and the ability to defend himself because he is wealthy.
Jews in 1933 Germany were wealthy too. Money doesn't beat hate and guns, and a proper civilization wouldn't let it come to that anyway.
Trump walked out after every day in court and addressed the public.
Which contained sane people, a rational focus. What would have been even more rational would be to never attend the kabuki courts, tell them to "come and get me" and then declared New York in a state of insurrection for seizing his buildings without due process of law.
He lied like hell. You would have not been allowed to do that.
Everyone who has ever been found guilty after pleading not guilty "lied like hell" in a much more substantial way, under greater scrutiny (higher standards of evidence), and not a single one has ever been found liable for defamation for saying they were innocent and their accusers were liars.
But that is the world as it existed under the rule of law. A world where the bill of rights meant something. A world where judges were not oathbreakers.
He was found guilty by a jury of peers.
A fake civil court does not have the authority to find him delinquent on returning a library book.