Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) warned Sunday there is a “risk” to not seizing former President Trump’s assets as he faces a looming deadline to post a bond in the $454 mil…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY.) warned Sunday there is a “risk” to not seizing former President Trump’s assets as he faces a looming deadline to post a bond in the $454 million judgment in his New York fraud case.
“I think that what we are dealing with politically is the much larger and much more grave and serious pressure of having this judgment against Donald Trump and him being in this degree of debt and the financial pressures that he is under and what he is subject to do in order to obtain those assets,” Ocasio-Cortez said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I actually think that there is risk in not seizing these assets and the open window that exists in him trying to secure these funds through other means,” she said. “We’ve seen a lot of interesting transactions happening with Truth Social and other means. And there’s a very real risk of political corruption.”
The deadline for Trump to pay the staggering bond amount is Monday in the New York fraud case. If he fails to post a bond, he faces a risk of his assets being seized by New York Attorney General Letitia James — who he has continued to rail against in recent days.
Your mistake was not running for president first. You can basically do what you want once you're president, wipe your ass with the constitution, plan political assassinations, dream to your hearts content bcz being president in the U.S. means the laws are made up and they don't matter, as long as you are or used to be president.
The risk of letting trump get away for so long led us to this BS today.
The risk of not punishing Jan 6 terrorists with the abu ghraib treatment (which as disgusting as it is) is what led to literal Nazis walking around proudly with flags.
She's saying that not seizing his property,and letting him acquire the funds through alternative means to pay, puts him at risk of being bought. That makes him more of a security risk to the country just so he can keep his assets.
again, why is this being talked about like an option? He's been ruled to pay, he hasn't paid by the deadline, by law assets must be seized to cover it.
I think she's just trying to put it in real terms. Debt is something that is looked at for government security clearances for exactly this reason. I can't imagine anyone with $454 million in debt getting any sort of clearance.