Top Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned New York Attorney General Letitia James against seizing former President Donald Trump’s property before the deadline for Trump to pay a $454 million fine to the state on Monday.
The former president’s bank accounts could be frozen and his beloved buildings seized by Attorney General Letitia James if he does not obtain a pardon from an appeals court or find an insurance company to cover the huge bail.
However, Luntz, a trusted GOP pollster for decades, has said James will only help Trump in his rematch with President Joe Biden in November if she starts taking his assets.
“If they take his stuff, he’ll say this is proof that the federal government and the establishment and the swamp in Washington… that this is a conspiracy to deny him the presidency,” he said.
Luntz, considered an anti-Trump Republican, believes that Trump will be able to “create the greatest victimhood of 2024” if an establishment politician like James starts stealing his property, all in public view.
Top Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned New York Attorney General Letitia James against seizing former President Donald Trump’s property before the deadline for Trump to pay a $454 million fine to the state on Monday.
“He’s going to rise in the polls just as he rose every time he was accused.” Luntz said on a CNN panel last week.
Not only that, but he typifies what he believes is the stupidity of the Democrats and the ‘Never Trumpers’ who try to stop him.
‘In the seven swing states, Trump is ahead by a margin of error in five of seven. Why does that happen? Because his critics are stupid and are running a horrible campaign,” he argued.
The attorney general formally recorded sentences in Westchester County, where Trump owns the two properties just north of Manhattan, on March 6.
According to the county clerk’s online database, the judgments were recorded against Trump, the Trump Organization and his two adult sons, Don Jr. and Eric. The action was first reported by Bloomberg News.
It comes as Trump faces a Monday deadline to obtain the $454 million ordered by the judge in the civil fraud case.
The move indicates the attorney general could be looking at the property if Trump can’t post bail. The filing did not give a reason for the search or specifically identify any Trump assets.
On Friday, he claimed to have $500 million in cash hours before shareholders voted in favor of a merger of his media company that put his paper shares in the company at $3.3 billion.
The former president’s bank accounts could be frozen and his beloved buildings seized by Attorney General Letitia James if he does not obtain a pardon from an appeals court or find an insurance company to cover the huge bail.
Luntz, a trusted GOP pollster for decades, has said James (pictured) will only help Trump in his rematch with President Joe Biden in November if she starts taking his assets.
New York District Attorney Letitia James has said that if Trump has not fulfilled a $454 million court judgment against him by then in his fraud trial in New York, she will begin seizing property, noting that the precious Trump’s Art Deco skyscraper at 40 Wall Street could be in his sights.
He also appears to be eyeing Trump’s golf club in Westchester and the Seven Springs property, recording judgments in Westchester County.
The former president was furious on the Internet at the possibility that the State could act against him. He wrote a series of fundraising speeches in which he asked New York to “keep its dirty hands off Trump Tower.”
He then criticized online the judge who imposed the astonishing $454 more in damages, which increases by more than $100,000 a day as he moves toward appeal.
‘Arthur Engoron is a rogue judge who was intimidated by the big, nasty, ugly mouth of Leticia James, considered by many to be the WORST Attorney General in the US. She is a low IQ person who campaigned for governor, using my name. and he was DEFEATED,” he posted on his Truth Social site.
‘She and her PUPPET Engoron, who valued Mar-a-Lago at $18,000,000 when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount, have destroyed all business prospects for the state of New York, which is already dead or dying. But fear not: when I become the 47th president, we will make NEW YORK GREAT AGAIN!’
The real estate drama came as Trump struggled to find someone willing to post bail, his lawyers wrote in a filing.
Trump’s team said it reached out to 30 institutions and could not find anyone willing to post bail for him. Trump, who previously posted $91 million bail in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case, then posted Friday that he had $500 million in cash.
James has signaled that he may be preparing to seize Trump properties in Westchester County, including Trump National Golf Club.
Letitia James has already requested a judgment in Westchester County, where Trump’s Seven Springs estate is located.
Experts have suggested Trump Tower could even be on Attorney General James’ seizure list
Among the properties James could target are: Seven Springs, his Trump National Golf Club in Westchester and Trump Tower, where Trump’s own 10,000-square-foot penthouse was a key point of contention.
James has noticed that he can see 40 Wall Street from his own office. “I look at No. 40 on Wall Street every day,” he said.
Meanwhile, the 77-year-old will head to a Manhattan court for a hearing in what will likely be the first of his four criminal trials to begin.