Top Republican investigator Frank Luntz warned New York Attorney General Letitia James against seizing former President Donald Trump’s property ahead of a 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 properties at risk of being seized by Attorney General Letitia James if he doesn’t get a reprieve from an appeals court or find an insurance company to cover the massive bail amount.
However, Luntz — a trusted pollster by the Republican Party for decades — has said that the only way James can help Trump in his rematch with President Joe Biden in November is if she starts taking his assets.
“If they take his stuff, he’ll say this is proof that the federal government, the establishment and the swamp in Washington … that this is a conspiracy to deny him the presidency,” he said.
Luntz, who is considered an anti-Trump Republican, believes Trump will be able to “create the biggest victimization of 2024” if his property is stolen from him by an establishment politician like James and anyone in the public eye .
Top Republican investigator Frank Luntz warned New York Attorney General Letitia James against seizing former President Donald Trump’s property before the deadline Monday for Trump to pay a $454 million fine to the state.
“He’s going to rise in the polls, just like he rose every time they indicted him.” Luntz said on a CNN panel last week.
Not only that, but it typified what he believes is the stupidity of Democrats and “Never Trumpers” trying to stop him.
‘In the seven swing states, Trump is ahead by a margin of error in five out of seven cases. Why does that happen? Because his critics are stupid and are running a terrible campaign,” he argued.
The attorney general formally registered judgments on March 6 in Westchester County, where Trump has the two properties just north of Manhattan.
According to the county clerk’s online database, the judgments were registered 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 secure the court-ordered $454 million in the civil fraud case.
The move signals that the attorney general may be keeping an eye on the property if Trump fails to post bail. The filing did not provide a reason for the registration or identify any specific Trump assets.
On Friday, he claimed he had $500 million in cash hours before shareholders voted to merge his media company, bringing his paper stock at the company to $3.3 billion.
The former president’s bank accounts could be frozen and his beloved properties at risk of being seized by Attorney General Letitia James if he doesn’t get a reprieve from an appeals court or find an insurance company to cover the massive bail bond.
Luntz – a trusted pollster by the Republican Party for decades – has said that James (pictured) can 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 made good on the $454 million court judgment against him from his New York fraud trial by then, she will begin seizing property — leaving Trump’s prized Art Deco skyscraper 40 Wall Street could be located among its sights.
She also appears to be keeping an eye on Trump’s Westchester Golf Club and Seven Springs estate and logging judgments in Westchester County.
The former president gushed online about the prospects of the state taking action against him. He wrote a series of fundraising pitches telling New York to “keep your dirty hands off Trump Tower.”
He then fulminated online about the judge who awarded him a staggering $454 extra award – which will increase by more than $100,000 a day as he appeals.
“Arthur Engoron is a rogue judge who was intimidated by the big, mean and 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 became TRUSTED,” 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 New York State, which is already moribund or dead. But have no fear: When I become the 47th President, we will MAKE NEW YORK GREAT AGAIN!’
The real estate drama arose when Trump started looking for someone willing to underwrite a bond, his lawyers wrote in a filing.
Trump’s team said they contacted 30 institutions and couldn’t find anyone willing to post bail for him. Trump, who previously posted a $91 million bond in the defamation case against E. Jean Carroll, then posted Friday that he had $500 million in cash.
James has indicated she could prepare to seize Trump properties in Westchester County, including the Trump National Golf Club
Letitia James has already filed for a judgment in Westchester County, where Trump’s Seven Springs estate is located
Experts have suggested that Trump Tower could even be on AG James’s list of seizures
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 apartment has been a major point of contention.
James has noted that she can see 40 Wall Street from her own office. “I watch 40 Wall Street every day,” she said.
Meanwhile, the 77-year-old heads to a Manhattan courtroom for a hearing in what will likely be the first of his four criminal cases.