How about threaten to confiscate via eminent domain or similar if it is sold?
What about, in the case of a “club” threaten a rezoning making operation impractical/impossible?
How about cutting water or electricity services if it is sold? (does the state own the utility companies?)
How about some form of special additional tax if it is sold, applicable only to that club?
None of them legal - but what if he imposes first and forces and new owner to fight it our in court?
WAG: he’s not particularly interested in money that isn’t going through a political machine that he controls. He’ll take what the fundraiser raises, but he’s not going to promote it over his own grifts.
If the New York courts attempt to seize assets in Florida, and Florida attempts to stop them, isn’t there some way the feds could step in to enforce Full Faith and Credit?
While I fear we may be getting ahead of ourselves (he probably will find some way to finagle a bond), does the court have to issue an order for each and every seizure, or can the state obtain a blanket order (“take as much of his shit as is needed to satisfy the judgement, within normal bounds”) or one order with a list of items?
As Johny_Bravo said It is directly competing with his own fund raising apparatuses which are far more profitable and probably have less overhead. The GoFundMe site has got to take a share of the donations to keep itself going, and there are lawyers involved in managing the fund who also probably cost money, so he would much rather have the donation go directly to him.
Optics. From Trump’s point of view GoFundMe is for poor losers who can’t pay their bills, and need help. This doesn’t fit the image that Trump is trying to project. Trump is an incredibly wealthy highly successful businessman whose deals always make huge amount of money. So he has no difficulty what-so-ever in paying his bills and doesn’t need anyone’s help. What needs help is America and Freedom and Purity. As rich as he is Trump can’t fight alone against the armies of darkness who would destroy America, so it is necessary that you give all your money to Trump so that he can put it where its most needed (i.e. his pocket) But that isn’t because he’s a poor like that loser who can’t pay for her daughter’s cancer treatment and so has to go begging on GoFundMe.
3: The GoFundMe was set up by someone else on his behalf. Which means that that person is going to take an “operating expenses” cut, which is going to be about 98% of what’s left after GFM’s cut.
And if he’s smart – note the conditional – he’d make a huge public fuss but do nothing concrete to block the damage to the guy he desperately wants to replace as leader of the MAGA pack.
Exactly. DeSantis doesn’t want to actually prevent the NY from stealing all of Trump’s stuff, he wants to convince the MAGAs that he did everything he could to prevent NY from stealing all of Trump’s stuff. So lots of sound a fury signifying nothing is what he’s going for here.
ETA: this was responding to EddyTeddyFreddy’s post directly above mine not to Cervaise directly.
I agree, but I’d like to see them actually act. I know we’ll have to wait a while (a week, is it?), but when NY moves against the first of whatever they have chosen to seize/collect, I’m sure that Donnie will react, and not in a nice way.
He may claim “election interference,” and that may play well to his supporters, but really, all he is, is a debtor, ordered by a court to pay a creditor. That’s it, that’s all; orders to pay a creditor happen every day in courtrooms everywhere.
Especially on white collar crime- something I had to say over and over to SDMBers who thought they should arrest trump within days of his leaving office.