As he and his attorneys continue to seek a delay in the payment of a $454 million civil fraud trial award to the state of New York, failed former president Donald Trump must have been shaken by comments made by the state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, according to “The Weekend” co-host Alicia Menendez.
During a segment this morning with former Justice Department official Mary McCord, Menedez played a video clip of James remarking, “If he [Trump] does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek in judgment enforcement mechanism in court and we will ask the judge to seize his assets.”
James added, “We are prepared to make sure the judgment is paid to New Yorkers. Yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day.”
40 Wall Street, it should be noted, is the address of Trump Tower, perhaps the most cherished property the disgraced ex-president owns.
That led Menendez to remark, “Two important pieces. Make sure the judgment is paid to New Yorkers because often one of the things you heard from Trump’s team is this is a victimless crime. So the idea that there are actually citizens who need to be repaid is one piece of this. And then the comment that must haunt Trump’s dreams now is, ‘Yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day.'”
Donald Trump probably thinks he can continue to kick the proverbial can down the road when it comes to paying the millions he owes both the state of New York for fraud and writer E. Jean Carroll for defamation. But if he’s under the illusion that Letitia James will let him get away with that, he clearly hasn’t been paying attention.
