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Legal Expert: Tish James Is About To ‘Put A Padlock’ On Trump Tower

New York Attorney General Letitia James may “put a padlock” on Trump Tower and other properties owned by failed former president Donald Trump, according to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, and the ex-head of state could also find his assets frozen and seized by the Empire State.

On Monday, attorneys for Trump told a judge they have been unable to secure a financial bond from any of the 30 companies they contacted about floating the $464 million needed for an appeal of the massive civil judgment handed down last month for crimes ranging from bank fraud to falsifying business records.

And that, Kirschner explained during an appearance on MSNBC, is the worst possible news for Trump.

“It would look like Tish James, figuratively speaking, putting a big New York state padlock on Trump Tower, for example,” he said.

“How does she extract the value from it, does she put it on the market? Does the state actually take possession of it and convert it to a state-owned property? I think the devil’s in the details with respect to how she will actually go about extracting the value to satisfy the half-billion-dollar judgment.”

Kirschner also noted that while Trump has bragged about being worth billions of dollars, he clearly doesn’t have the assets he claims.

“He is now being asked to put up a bond to secure basically a half-a-billion-dollar judgment, which would represent about one-twenty-eighth of his entire assets as Donald Trump [and his lawyer Alina Habba] say.”

If the disgraced ex-president was actually worth billions, Kirschner continued, “I would think insurance companies and sureties would be beating down his door to do business with him.”

“So it feels like this is perhaps the next-to-last step on the road to Donald Trump’s financial demise,” Kirschner said. “Because as we’ve been discussing, New York Attorney General Letitia James said she will absolutely begin seizing his properties to satisfy this money judgment that has been entered against him.”

The video, courtesy of RealClear Politics, can be viewed at this link.

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Letitia James Just Trolled Trump In A Way That’s Guaranteed To Infuriate Him

New York Attorney General Letitia James has long known exactly how to push the buttons of failed one-term former president Donald Trump, and she’s once again trolling him with great elan regarding the hundreds of millions of dollars he owes the state of New York after committing fraud for decades.

Trump is already on the hook to James and the Empire State for nearly $465 million in penalties, and with every day he fails to pay up, almost $115,000 in interest is also added to that enormous amount.

So on Saturday, James decided to remind Donnie that she’s keeping a running total of what he will eventually be required to fork over to the state, posting this on Twitter/X:

That’s absolutely savage, and it drew hearty applause on social media.

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‘Furious’ Trump Likely To ‘Explode’ During Monday Testimony In New York Fraud Trial: Ex-Prosecutor

When he takes the witness stand in the ongoing New York fraud trial against him and the Trump Organization on Monday, disgraced former president Donald Trump is expected to be “furious” and lash out angrily at prosecutors, which could all but seal his fate, according to a former federal prosecutor.

Jennifer Rodgers, who worked for the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, said Sunday on CNN that “fireworks” are likely to be on display when Trump testifies.

“He’s been talking, of course, at length about how the judge is out to get him and the AG is out to get him,” Rodgers said. “So the question is, I don’t know that he’ll just be smug. I mean, he may explode tomorrow.”

Any such vitriol would be damaging to Trump, who is facing the possibility of a $250 million judgement against him, Rodgers added.

“So one question is, if it goes poorly on direct tomorrow with the attorney general’s staff questioning him, will his lawyers cross-examine him, quote-unquote, cross-examine him to try to rehabilitate him in the eyes of the judge?”

The failed, one-term ex-president has already been fined $15,000 by New York  Justice Arthur Engoron for violating a court-imposed gag order. He could also be found in contempt of court if he lashes out during his Monday testimony.

The New York case is a civil matter, meaning Trump only faces financial penalties for bank and tax fraud. However, he could be sentenced to stiff prison time in federal cases pending against him for mishandling classified documents and illegally attempting to overturn the 2016 election.

 

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Tish James Claps Back At Trump: There’s Enough Evidence Of Your Crimes To ‘Fill This Courtroom’

After he stormed out of a New York courtroom Wednesday in response to a $10,000 fine imposed on him by Judge Arthur Engoron for violating a gag order, 77-year-old juvenile delinquent ex-president Donald Trump told reporters that he’d just been exonerated by a witness in his fraud trail.

“The witness just admitted that we won the trial and the judge should end this trial immediately. Thank you.”

As with 99.9% of the things that issue forth from Trump’s mouth, the statement was a complete and total lie and has absolutely no basis in fact. It was merely a way for the multiply-indicted former head of state to try and save face.

In response to Trump’s childish conniption fit, New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the massive $250 million fraud case against Trump and the Trump Organization, released a video in which she rebutted all his lies.

“The defendants counsel attempted and failed to discredit our entire case,” James noted. “But our case is the result of a four-year investigation that is based on hundreds of thousands of documents and many, many witnesses.”

 “As the judge said today, ‘There is enough evidence in this case to fill this courtroom,'” James continued.
“And he already ruled in our favor and found that Mr. Trump engaged in this fraud.”

The video concludes with James looking into the camera and declaring, “When you have build an empire on falsehood the truth is your only enemy. And we will continue to present the truth in court.”

Tish James is not taking any of Donnie’s bullshit. She’s countering his fraud and lies with the truth, and that’s how you win in court: With facts.

 

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Michael Cohen Triggers Trump BIG TIME – Donald Visibly Upset As Former Lawyer Testifies

Michael Cohen, who served for years as an attorney and fixer for failed and multiply-indicted former president Donald Trump, testified today in a New York courtroom against his ex-boss, and what he had to say clearly triggered the Donald, according to reporters who were in the court.

According to Politico, Cohen laid out how he helped Trump and top executives at the Trump Organization inflate the value of properties owned by the disgraced former head of state.

“I was tasked by Mr. Trump to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected,” Cohen said, “and my responsibility, along with [former Trump Organization CFO] Allen Weisselberg, predominantly, was to reverse engineer the various different asset classes, increase those assets in order to achieve the number that Mr. Trump had tasked us.”

Trump’s reaction was palpable. Again, quoting Erica Orden of Politico:

As Cohen delivered that testimony, Trump, who was seated at the defense table, grew red in the face and shook his head. Trump didn’t look at Cohen as he entered the courtroom, but as Cohen spoke on the witness stand, Trump trained his eyes on him and either crossed his arms or leaned forward over the defense table.

Jose Pagliery of The Daily Beast was also in the courtroom and shared his observations of how Trump’s attorneys had to try and keep their client from an outburst.

This fraud trial is the one that worries Donald Trump the most, according to experts. Why? Because it shows that almost everything Trump has acquired was obtained through fraud, lies, and manipulation. He’s not rich. He’s not successful. And he’s certainly not a good person. He’s just a wannabe mafia don who got caught in his lies and cannot stand the thought that the world is finding out what a crook he is.

Michael Cohen knows all about Trump’s financial crimes, and that infuriates Donnie to the nth degree.