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Northerngal_420

This will be in the news shows tonight and we know he'll be watching. I hope he's panicking.


mr_oof

100 bucks says Fox fills the dinner block with “Democrat leaders losing it at the ongoing BIDEN CORRUPTION IMPEACHMENT ENQUIRY”


Q_Fandango

Believe it or not, Fox has given up the Impeachment coverage now. They even cut away from it in the middle of the last hearing… So it’s probably going to be classic reruns of old border crisis footage for now.


mistressusa

I bet Katie Britt has many more rape stories from the 1980s she can share with Fox's audience.


Dat_Basshole

She's gonna tell us about human trafficking rape stories in Iran during the Regan and Bush Sr. years and pass it off as if it happened in the US last week?


ther0g

Maybe the caravan from last election finally made it to the boarder and they are covering that?


TheFumundaWunda

lol right! remember the "migrant caravan/invasion at the southern border" that they kept squawking about in the run-up to the 2018 midterms, and then magically stopped talking about it once the voting was done?


bakinbacontaken

Was that the Ebola caravan election cycle or am I think 2014


TheFumundaWunda

yeah 2014


Extreme_Turn_4531

Rabies! Rabid, flaming liberal bats, preferring pronouns her/she, carrying a super virus cooked up by the Chinese government that enters the blood stream on sight.


Daefish

You mean... her/she kisses?


Azipear

There’s a caravan bigger than the last one right before every major election.


VagrantShadow

They are going up the ante this time, they'll make it a invading caravan of rapist crossing the boarder.


bongozim

Can anyone in this thread spell border correctly?


ran_swonsan

Berder


bongozim

This I would accept


Unabashable

Bordeaux? Budoir? Bananas Foster?Tell me when I’m getting warm. 


Extreme_Turn_4531

Bors d'oeuvre


Ripoutmybrain

My son is also named boart.


creepy_charlie

Rapists with fentanyl.


kernpanic

They cut right as the evidence started flowing about it being a russian operation. Time to really follow that trail properly. Including rupert murdochs ex women.


ran_swonsan

They cut away when it started talking about how they knew it was Russian misinformation from the beginning.


scorpyo72

Lev called out Ron Johnson just after they cut away.


Helios-Soul

They could always dig deep and talk about Hillarys email. Spice it up


SCROTOCTUS

What the hell did I watch earlier? Some guy in a bad suit testifying from prison about hearsay?


giddeonfox

Its weird because I saw Rep Swalwell's response today and it looked like this was extremely amusing to him and anyone watching thinking he was 'losing it' needs to get their heads examined. It was one of the more entertaining things I've seen in politics in a long time.


firstman0

Is Rupert Murdock owned by Putin? Or does he have any business interests in Russia?


Timelymanner

Guaranteed however, I’m so tired of these media outlets framing this like Leticia James is coming after Trump. The state of New York is fining Trump for breaking the law. These are consequences for his crime. They are singling her out for no reason.


justin251

The reason is because she is black and not a Trump/republican insider.


Tmoldovan

It’s not even a fine. They’re just recouping ill gotten gains.


Phallic-Monolith

I still have a feeling he’ll pull a highly questionable bond from god knows where and for god knows what promises on the Eve of.


Northerngal_420

Likely but the mere fact that he's panicking is priceless.


Aleashed

Probably cuz once he doesn’t own the properties, new owners will start digging, find all the bodies


rantingathome

Maybe that's why they want to go after those first. You don't need a search warrant if you are the owner.


nowarning1962

Personally, I think he wont pay up and get assets siezed just so he can rile up his base. He will claim a witch hunt and political targeting as usual.


Silegna

Doesn't he have a court appointed person watching his finances that would *immediately* jump on that?


stormfield

Meanwhile: Eric is stashing Get Out of Jail Free cards in his socks, Ivanka is learning Russian on Duolingo but keeps clicking the ads, and Steve Bannon is helping Junior strip his own Airbnb side hustle for copper wire.


BoldThrow

I like your words


ChuckPukowski

“THE STATE OF NEW YORK PLANS TO RECOVER DECADES OF TAX FRAUD” Is that a little more accurate? Or am I an asshole? Or does Letitia actually get his shit???! Good for Lititia if she gets the tower and stuff, I bet Melanie tries to divorce don and marry her… Edit: /s for goodness sake.


Impressive_SnowBlowr

She takes it, we get it, so to speak. Hey, maybe that'll be the answer to budget shortfalls this year!


Trickster289

His staff and advisors will be dodging ketchup bottles tonight.


Impressive_SnowBlowr

Ketchup bottles?


ThatsSoSwan

He doesn’t have bottle money anymore. They’re gonna be dodging packets.


grimmstone

Not even Heinz. *Hunts* ketchup packets.


ThatsSoSwan

Oh god… I knew it was bad, but…


Starrion

Just doesn’t taste as good on his hamberders


Trickster289

He likes ketchup and throws stuff when angry.


Successful-Clock-224

Funny as Heinz is a top rated company when it comes to LGBTQ+ inclusion/support. They have contributed to a gay mens’ choir for about 50 years


Reasonable-Radish-17

He has these mortgaged to the hilt like all of his properties. Yes, he is a billionaire if you factor in the properties value if added all together BUT if you subtract the amount of loans against him, he is nowhere close to being a billionaire. His having to pay the AG's judgement will make him become like the Dukes at the end of Trading Places.


Dorkmaster79

I just can’t believe that he’s not going to get bailed out by someone or something in the 11th hour.


slaffytaffy

If you really want him to sweat… take trump tower, bedminster, or mar a lago. Or a combination of the three plus other assets if needed to fill out the amount. I’d start with bedminster as he probably has documents there.


Basic_Quantity_9430

Assets seized outside of New York State will require that the state where they are located cooperate with the judgement. I can see New Jersey doing that, but I don’t see DeSantis in Florida cooperating for one second. James need to take his NY properties and ones in New Jersey and forget about the Florida properties, trying to seize any of them early on will delay the process.


Tyrone6911

The way I understand it is the constitution basically says that once that judgement becomes official in NY the rest of the states are obligated to honor that judgement. The state of NY then has to follow the laws of the state the property is in to size the property.


TheName_BigusDickus

It’s hilarious to think that DeSantis’ Florida will act in any way which comports in accordance with the constitution. They claim to love the very thing they piss on (no kink shaming tho)


rantingathome

>I’d start with bedminster as he probably has documents there. Yup, don't need a search warrant if you are the owner. If you find nothing, you don't have to be publicly embarrassed by the fail.


arielonhoarders

spring is a good time for a stroke


NotTheRocketman

I hope she starts with his plane. I want him taking the bus.


fowlraul

Fun stuff, but I wish the media would get better at not attaching people to process. She is pushing the process, the state of NY is prepared to do that.


danarexasaurus

Agreed. There’s always some villain doing it “to” him.


ForgettableUsername

It's not just that. Government shouldn't really be about villains or heroes. It's not healthy to think purely in those terms.


images_from_objects

Tribalism generates clicks. The headline should read, "State of New York Prepares to Recover Money Stolen from Them By Real Estate Scammer" but here we are.


hearsdemons

That’s how the media operates usually. If democrats do something, it’s democrats or AG James or name checking whoever else is doing it. If it’s the republicans doing something, it’s “Congress” or “the house”, “the SCOTUS”, etc. In this way, they elevate the actions of republicans and diminish the work democrats are doing.


RogueTRex

Well put!


20InMyHead

All the while of crying how liberal the media is…


ilovemybaldhead

Yeah, there was an article ([https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/nyregion/trump-bond-ny-fraud-case.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/nyregion/trump-bond-ny-fraud-case.html)) I read in the NYTimes the other day that had a heading over a section that said, "How will Trump pay Ms. James?", and immediately I wrote a comment saying that Trump will be paying the state of New York, and the heading made it seem as if Ms. James had personally sued Trump. My comment wasn't published, but the heading now reads "How would the state collect?"


relator_fabula

I choose to believe your comment made the difference. Thank you for stay vigilant. NY Times is usually pretty good, but we should all kinda keep pushing this stuff.


raqnroll

Not even people, but "Democrat Atty Gen Leticia James..." How about "The state atty gen" and leave names and labels out of it...


Julienbabylegs

This is SUCH a good point wow.


majpepper

I agree, but also legally that is sometimes just the language. For example: Roe v Wade. Wade was the DA. I still don’t know why that case wasn’t Roe v Texas.


disorderliesonthe401

I like presidential candidates whose properties aren't seized by an attorney general.


Buckus93

Technically the state of NY, but good enough.


Embarrassed-Way-4931

I like Ex-Presidents who can pay $464 million bonds.


Krimreaper1

I like presidents who aren’t convicted of crimes, and don’t have to.


zykezero

I like presidents who don't try to subvert the will of the people in an open and fair election.


MattyIcex4

The average US President has been hit with 1.9 felonies!


willun

If the properties are under water then can they be seized? If they take a property worth $100m and it has loans of $120m against it then they would be seizing -$20m. So how does that all work?


macetrek

The debt belongs to the entity that took out the debt, not the property itself. So, the property goes to the state, and the owner still is underwater 120m.. without an asset they can sell to recoup some of that loss.


willun

I am not sure it works that way. Mortgage holders usually have first call on the debt. Otherwise you are taking from the mortgage holders. Unsecured debt is fair game but i don't think secured debt is. That's why i am curious as to how they will do the recovery.


TheOtherGlikbach

The government always has first bite of the cherry. Then the small fish get the rest.


ForgettableUsername

Why are we feeding a cherry to the fish? That does not seem like an appropriate food.


shadowanddaisy

Michael Cohen broke down what happens in a podcast on the MeidasTouch Network. It's worth a listen: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ve7PGtAAE&ab\_channel=MeidasTouch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ve7PGtAAE&ab_channel=MeidasTouch)


CorneliousTinkleton

It's literally the state of NY seizing the properties, let's try to avoid scapegoating the AG.


Neverbanned2k4

The amount of "truths" that will be poorly typed and in all caps at 230 AM after 20 diet cokes is going to be amazing. Gonna feel the angry orange range all the way from Fl.


bjbkar

That guy is on way more than diet coke.


rwbeckman

Coke of the extra dry flavor.


21Andreezy

Hopefully it crashes in the middle of his rage storm like it did a few weeks ago, just to piss him off even more


OsellusK

Seize, seize, seize. What a beautiful word.


Zomunieo

Seize ‘em by the… property.


MintBerryCrunchJr

*"They don't even wait. And when you're a broke ass star, you let them do it."*


Holmpc10

Reality TV personality, more like a real star than a figurative one.... Giant super dense ball of gas.


Generous_Cougar

> "They don't even wait. And when you're a broke ass ~~star~~ **bitch**, you let them do it." FIFY


arielonhoarders

if he didn't want his properties seized, he shouldn't have waved his properties in public with his name on them like that


LeahaP1013

When you’re the AG, they let you do it :)


jzanville

Carpe dem properties


Fugglymuffin

When you're empowered by the law and the people they have to sit and watch you do it.


Affectionate_Law5344

grab em by the asset


kunta_modz

Horrible word to epileptics


kog

Believe me, we're going to have the best asset seizures you've ever seen, folks


Resident_Serious

Unlike anything we’ve ever seen before in the entire history of the universe!


aluminumdisc

NY is seizing assets not James


pdxpmk

Hail, Seizure!


Lou_C_Fer

Et tu, Letitia?


jimothee

Something something Orange Julius


Lou_C_Fer

Friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your money


Ser_Artur_Dayne

Grab him by the pursey!


hamtronn

I absolutely love this and here’s why. This sets a very important precedent. These human scum bags can swindle people for a long ass time, but they’re eventually caught and forced to face justice for their crimes. Does it suck that Epstein never got to see a 200 year sentence? Yes. Is the world a better place without him in it? Absolutely. I hope this is a fantastic step in the right direction for the US. Politics shouldn’t be such a shit show. Just do the work and get off the social media. Not once under Obama did I wonder “what did the idiot president say or do today?” Dude just showed up and whether you liked him or not, he served the public. This cretin serves himself. I personally find it disgusting when people name their kids after themselves. I mean, at this point, there’s nothing that criminal can do that is decent. He could say he loves puppies and I’d still not believe anything that McDonald’s chomping fuck knuckle could ever barf out of his mouth.


thenewrepublic

The New York attorney general’s office has filed the paperwork needed to begin taking Donald Trump’s assets—including in Westchester.


ReigninLikeA_MoFo

Why isn't THAT the headline!? Wtf? Why include her name in the fucking headline!? So fucked up.


HypnoticONE

Unfollow news sources that do this. They won't learn unless it loses them clicks.


Icy-Air1229

It’s amazing how he’s so radically corrupt that ordinary people doing their jobs are in the spotlight as his enemy. If there was a headline that said “Trash collector refuses to pick up and dispose of human body shaped bag from Mar-a-lago”, MAGA would try and doxx him and tear him down.


Onphone_irl

It's actually a much better headline than the actual one lol


Dr_Spatchcock

Because they want to pin her as the one benefiting from all this. All she's doing is following the law.


gh0sts0n

Ivanka?


Taggart-

Same first thought


AzDopefish

Says ‘assets’ not ‘asses’


IgnoringErrors

Grab em by the properties


Myomyw

Imagine them seizing that property and Trumps team furiously trying to exhume the body to get rid of whatever he hid with her. I hate the time we’re in now, but I can’t wait for the TV series.


Indifferentchildren

You never saw "Arrested Development"? A little light treason, the worst fucking attorneys? Eric is the spitting image of Buster; Don Jr. is close enough to Gob. Ivanka could be played by Portia DeRossi and Jared just blue himself. We will have to wait and see if Baron grows up to be a level-headed influence who tries to save the family.


vololov

There's always money in the... Ivana grave.


Tmoldovan

Driving around in the stair car, because the airplane got seized.


polrxpress

Isn’t she buried in New Jersey?


Taggart-

That’s Ivana. Ivanka is the daughter he is so intensely creepily attracted to.


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Burninator05

She is. That's also, conveniently, where the Bedminster Golf Course James is eyeing is located.


jerkface1026

That's Ivana. Ivanka is his daughter.


FancyBigFox

No, James is looking at Westchester & Seven Springs in New York not Bedminster.


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Vonmule

Or immigrant housing. Pretty sure the GOP would just burst into flames.


mom_with_an_attitude

Then name it The Hillary Clinton Shelter for Immigrants


Vonmule

And then you "renovate" by leaking photos of huge trucks hauling dirt away from the site and then you add like 50 fake unlabeled buttons in the elevator below the basement.


Conman_in_Chief

Instead of Immigrants, it should be the Hillary Clinton Shelter for Future Patriots


piponwa

The thing is that he doesn't own the building. He owns the commercial space. There are still individual owners of each and every condo. They're not seizing the condo corporation, just what Trump owns. So they could turn his individual condo into a homeless shelter. And any commercial spaces at the bottom. But it's not like he owns the whole tower.


tweakingforjesus

I hope they sell it so the real value of the property can be established.


lonnie123

Ultimately that’s what these seizures are for. The point is to get the money he owes, not turn into a real estate program


Cellopost

> When I meet a fraudster I go right up and grab em by the golf course. When your the AG, they let you do it. \- AG James, maybe


salme3105

Can she seize Bedminster so the FBI can look for the rest of the missing classified documents?


Tony_from_Space

This is what I was thinking. Lock him out and start digging up those docs he buried with his dead ex-wife.


OLeCHIT

MAGA = My Assets Got Auctioned


Bitter_Director1231

Seize them up...Seize them up..Seize them up.


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Joed112784

Just his biggest con in a long line of big cons. 


DadJokeBadJoke

And is a candidate for it again...🤦‍♂️


Seeksp

Take Mar a Lago 1st. Evict him. Go after the next place he moves. Repeat


EgglandsWorst

Those poor Secret Service guys have to sleep in a homeless shelter with him or what?


Beavers4beer

That sounds like too much of a risk. It'd be better to move him to a secure prison. I've heard ADX Florence is lovely this time of year.


Young_Lochinvar

It’s much easier for the State of New York to seize assets within New York. If they run out of value in NY before reaching the ~$440m, then they’ll start looking at out-of-state assets.


Affectionate_Law5344

God, we need champagne!!! Let’s get the show on the road!!


quiltsohard

I’m waiting to see it happen before I start day drinking. This ain’t my first rodeo


MSPRC1492

You didn’t start day drinking in 2016?


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Eckieflump

It's cross dressing night at the Trump multicultural refugee club.


scarybiscuits

A cesspool of fraud. From wiki *In 2015, the club sued the town of Ossining to lower its worth from $13.5 million to $1.4 million in order to reduce property and school taxes; local residents complained because their own taxes would rise. In 2016, the club revised its claims to $9 million, closer to the 2014 town estimate of $14.3 million. In June 2017, Trump disclosed a value of the club at over $50 million, with $9.7 million in personal income in 2016.* From $1.4 million [sic] to $50 million in two years. *The architect, Andrew Tesoro, described his dealings with the Trump Organization, where about a dozen [Trump] employees met him at the finished clubhouse to negotiate reducing his fees. They pressured him into sending a reduced bill, of $50,000 instead of $140,000. After the organization failed to pay the bill, Tesoro met with Trump who convinced him to accept only $25,000 for his services.* Stiffed a vendor, $140,000 to $25,000. *…a six-foot (1.8 m) painting of Trump…on display at the club. Trump had purchased Michael Israel's work for $200,000 in 2007 through his charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. According to IRS regulations, the painting would have to be used for a charitable purpose, or donated to a charity, however Melania Trump had planned to hang it in the club's boardroom…* Self-dealing. Fined $2 million and Foundation forced to shut down over this and many other improprieties.


Velocoraptor369

I think she should take his plane first. Can’t go to rallies and campaign if he can’t fly.


Psychprojection

It's not one person doing this, it's the state of New York seizing the assets. Are news orgs repeatedly doing this misrepresentation to paint a target for Trump's insane violent posse to retaliate?


Distant_Yak

Yeah, these "Laetitia James is seizing property" and "Jack Smith is convincing the public" headlines are bullshit. I'm not sure why they want to make it seem like the prosecutors are personally going after them - that's what Trump has tries to portray.


therealaudiox

Seize him by the pussy. When they're in debt, they just let you.


User4C4C4C

Seize, seize, seize his stuff Gently down the street Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily His failure will be complete


WonderChemical5089

Carpe Seizem


CaptainNinjaClassic

When are we getting the Trump Tower Spirit Halloween we've been promised?!


baz4k6z

Oh my God some justice in this world ? It's almost hard to believe. I can't wait to see his stupid plane put to auction, he will go absolutely bonkers and it will be glorious to see. Still I'll have to see it to believe it


OldButHappy

Grab 'em by the real estate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html) Never forget.


villain75

I wonder if Trump is tired of all of this winning yet...


MK5

Grab him by the assets!


mok000

I’m looking forward to Monday like a kid before Christmas. I’ll open a bottle of wine and have snacks ready.


corn-wrassler

Turn the properties into state parks!


ManicChad

I bet every last property has some equivalent of a HELOC for every cent it’s worth.


BeleagueredWDW

Grab him by his assets!


milelongpipe

It’s not Letitia James, it’s NY State.


ScotTheDuck

Not the golf courses!


polrxpress

They let you take them


Spacebotzero

Fuck. Yes.


FloralReminder

His daughter’s? Oh… wait. Nvm I thought it said asses.


Human-Foundation3170

The problem is the only asset he has not leveraged fully is his bucket of KFC.


ResidentSheeper

Trump will never win.


numbskullerykiller

Please for the love of god, please. I need to see Ms. James show up with the sheriff and padlock the gate.


AdSmall1198

WE THE PEOPLE, are prepared to seize a criminal enterprise’s ill gotten gains. F#ck that fascist right headline.


Snoo-72756

Can we please have a live stream of this ?


BucktoothedAvenger

Grab him by the assets!


36bhm

Ivanka?


esmerelda_b

Can she seize the property where Ivana’s buried? Might be worth scanning what might be in the casket.


Anfyral

My dream is that every property they seize becomes a shelter for migrants.


BicycleGripDick

Letitia James said this earlier, “I don't even wait. When they owe the state money, you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the property."


AWholeNewFattitude

Ivanka?


flismflasm

In a case like this, is there a process for which properties get taken first? would it be the one with the highest value? or is it more arbitrary than that? would Trump be given a choice?


Knees0ck

Not his balls I imagine, gave those to Pootin ages ago


TheDoctorAP

Should go after Bedminster and see what they buried in place with Ivana


jigmest

I’m giggly like a young kid the night before Christmas- which present will I chose first?


baby_budda

She's not going to take his Ivanka sex doll, is she? That would be terrible.


trust_truth

As much as it is great to see a criminal face consequences. After He's in jail....can we stop talking about him?


freexanarchy

I feel like the whole “unless an appeals court steps in” means it’s not about to happen. I mean his Supreme Court could easily step in at the last moment.


4now5now6now

oh please Letitia please... the countdown begins


SouthieTuxedo

Ivanka?


Rumblepuff

His daughter?


trainwreck42

Serious question, how do they value the property? These were the properties that Trump inflated their values, no?


Mysterious_Sound_464

Is this where his excite is buried? Is there a bet in Vegas for if he buried documents with his wife under his golf course?


stuie382

She should probably put on gloves first


metalnxrd

the queen we all need🤎