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New York attorney general Letitia James has already begun preparing the ground to seize Donald Trump’s assets in anticipation of his not being able to meet the $464m bond in his Big Apple fraud trial, the deadline for which falls on Monday.
It emerged on Thursday that Ms James registered the judgement from the months-long trial with the county clerk’s office in New York’s Westchester County on 7 March, suggesting she is taking steps towards repossessing the Republican presidential candidate’s Seven Springs estate and Trump National Golf Club in the area.
Attorneys for Mr Trump complained earlier this week that they had approached more than 30 surety companies for help with the bond but were finding it a “practical impossibility” to come up with the money.
Meanwhile, according to a newly-released transcript from the House select committee on the January 6 attack, a White House valet testified that then-President Trump threatened Mike Pence in advance of the Capitol riot.
The valet said they overheard Mr Trump urging the vice president to subvert the certification of the 2020 election results in Congress, telling him: “Mike, this is a political career killer if you do this… Do what’s right”.
Truth Social: Trump rages at James over potential assest repossession
Here’s the latest from the Hieronymus Bosch nightmarescape that is Donald Trump’s social media platform.
You will not be surprised to hear that he is pretty furious about James’s latest filing:
In addition, he’s been laying into “CROOKED JOE” with the help of some hysterical coverage of the southern border from Fox News, talking up his alleged “love” for the Latino community (again) and issuing this frankly rather odd declaration about Truth Social itself.
Joe Sommerlad22 March 2024 09:00
Letitia James takes first steps towards seizing Trump’s New York assets
Days after Donald Trump lost a months-long civil trial on allegations that he defrauded investors, New York attorney general Letitia James said she was prepared to begin seizing his assets if the former president couldn’t find the cash to pay the $464m judgment against him.
Earlier this month, her office took the first step in doing just that and it appears she has her eye on Trump’s Seven Springs estate and Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, for starters.
Alex Woodward has the very latest.
Joe Sommerlad22 March 2024 08:15
‘Were you better off four years ago?’
The Biden campaign appears to have a clearer memory of March 2020 than the Trump team…
Oliver O’Connell22 March 2024 06:15
Trump’s candidate triumphed in Ohio’s Republican primary — what does that mean for November?
John Bowden filed this report from Ohio earlier this week:
Oliver O’Connell22 March 2024 04:15
New transcript shows Trump threatened Pence in pre-Capitol riot call
A White House valet who was with former president Donald Trump on the day Congress certified his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden told the House January 6 select committee that Mr Trump threatened then-vice president Mike Pence’s future political viability in a phone call just before Mr Pence was to preside over a joint session of Congress to count electoral college ballots.
Oliver O’Connell22 March 2024 02:15
ICYMI: Melania Trump evasive about campaign role in rare appearance
“Stay tuned,” she told reporters on Tuesday after she was asked if she would return to the campaign trail with her husband, Donald Trump.
The Trumps had just exited a polling location together in Palm Beach, Florida, where the one-term president voted for himself in the Republican primary.
Oliver O’Connell22 March 2024 00:15
‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’
Donald Trump has sent out a panicked fundraising message to his supporters as he begs them to help foot his ballooning legal bills.
The desperate memo, titled “Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!”, comes as the Monday deadline to pay his $464m bond in his New York fraud trial judgement ticks ever closer.
“KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!” the text reads, linking to an accompanying memo that states: “Insane radical Democrat AG Letitia James wants to SEIZE my properties in New York. THIS INCLUDES THE ICONIC TRUMP TOWER!”
Oliver O’Connell21 March 2024 23:15
New Yorkers react to news Trump could lose his namesake building if he fails to pay $464m bond
The Independent’s Kelly Rissman staked out Trump Tower, where tourists, locals, and mask-covered Trump impersonators collide, to take a temperature check on the possibility that the attorney general could seize the golden-plated property.
Oliver O’Connell21 March 2024 22:15
Democrat Jared Moskowitz ratchets up his trolling of GOP impeachment probe
John Bowden reports from Washington, DC:
Democratic lawmaker Jared Moskowitz is increasingly working to turn the GOP’s impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden into a spectacle as the evidence gathered by his committee appears to still lack the votes to pass even the hardline Republican-held House of Representatives.
Oliver O’Connell21 March 2024 21:45
Trump attempts to clarify stance on social security and medicare
Despite saying about ten days ago that he is open to cuts in Social Security and Medicare, Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social to try and clarify his position in an effort to walk back a talking point that could become a serious electoral liability with older voters.
The former president wrote:
Unlike the Democrats, who are KILLING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE by allowing the INVASION OF THE MIGRANTS, I will NOT, under any circumstance, allow either of these two precious GEMS to be even touched under a Trump Administration. Biden is killing them both with the INVASION, while at the same time destroying our Country! MAGA2024
CROOKED JOE BIDEN IS THE WORST PRESIDENT, BY FAR, IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. MAGA2024!
Oliver O’Connell21 March 2024 21:30
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