Frankly, Donald Trump is going through it right now.
DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis are still hunting the big guy down like rabid dogs, with a whopping total of *91* felony criminal charges lodged against him, to date — ranging from his attempts to tamper with and overthrow the results of the 2020 election, to his involvement in the deadly January 6th Capital attack, to the stolen government documents scandal — with no signs indicating that the bleeding will stop anytime soon.
While Smith, Bragg, and Willis are taking care of the criminal side of the scandal-plagued former president, New York Attorney General Letitia James has the civil side more than covered, making sure that Donald’s corrupt businesses don’t survive this Trump-era implosion.
Recently, New York Judge Arthur Engoron handed down a brutal, sweeping ruling that took aim at not only the disgraced former president, but his sons Eric and Don Jr., and the Trump Organization as a whole, ultimately stripping the Trump family of their control over much of their signature properties, putting Donald’s entire real estate empire that earned him his infamous “name” decades ago at grave risk.
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Now, it seems that Donald’s only saving grace for his businesses could lay in the hands of his third and current wife, Melania. However, it seems that Trump shouldn’t be so quick to assume that his wife and the mother of his youngest child will be so willing to help save his feet from the proverbial fire.
Engoron determined that the Trump Organization knowingly submitted fraudulent financial statements that “clearly contain fraudulent valuations that defendants used in business.” As such, the judge ordered the cancellation of the business certificates used by Donald’s family company for several of his properties in the state of New York. Ultimately, a ruling could be handed down that goes so far as to ban him from operating any business in the state — a move that would quite literally force the former president to sell off his holdings.
Legal experts have since weighed in and noted that Donald does have one proverbial “Get Out Of Jail Free Card” when it comes to maintaining control over his New York portfolio — his wife.
Recently, both Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka and wife his Melania were formally removed from AG James’ civil suit against Donald and the Trump Organization, meaning they are not subject to Judge Ergoron’s brutal ruling and, thus, could theoretically hold the assets in their name while still giving their father/husband full control over the holdings, effectively giving Donald Trump a loophole in the system.
But people have also pointed out that Donald perhaps shouldn’t put all his eggs in his wife’s basket just yet, as multiple recent reports have indicated that the former first lady is going to some pretty great lengths to distance and separate herself from her scandal-plagued husband, with some indicating that a divorce may even be on the horizon.
Speculations have swirled in recent weeks that Melania Trump has recently renegotiated her prenup with Donald, for more money and property, as Donald’s resources are bled dry by the neverending criminal and civil cases against him.
Former federal prosecutor and President of West Coast Trial Lawyers Neama Rahmani recently told Newsweek:
Trump may be broke by the time the presidential election is over. He lost his defamation case to Jean Carroll and will have to pay more damages for defaming her again. He’s already been found liable in the New York civil fraud case, lost his New York business license and has to dissolve his companies, and may get hit with a judgment of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.
He’s spending tens of millions of dollars to defend himself in four separate criminal cases, and the trials haven’t even started yet. Trump has been a fundraising machine, but that well will dry up if he loses the election again.
It’s not surprising that Melania and Ivanka and protecting themselves and separating their money from the former president. Of course, his creditors may argue that those transfers are fraudulent and designed to avoid paying Trump’s debt if Trump is ever unable to do so himself.”
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