Trump's legal battles collide for manic Monday: Ex-president has HOURS to pay ... trends now
Two of Donald Trump's biggest legal nightmares will collide in Manhattan on Monday when he faces the deadline to pay the eye-popping $454 million fraud fine and a pivotal hearing in the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial.
The former president's bank accounts could be frozen and his beloved buildings 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 bond.
Meanwhile the 77-year-old will be heading to a Manhattan courtroom for a hearing in what will likely be the first of his four of criminal trials to begin. Jury selection was set to begin on Monday, but the addition of thousands of pieces of evidence will push the trial back further towards the November general election.
The collision of the two legal cases will spark another dramatic day in the political drama and financial saga of Trump that has dominated his preparations for his grueling rematch with Joe Biden.
On Friday, he claimed to have $500 million in cash hours before shareholders voted through a merger of his media company that put his paper stock at the venture at $3.3 billion.
Monday will put pieces of Donald Trump's real estate empire on the line. Jury selection is also set to begin in the Stormy Daniels 'hush' money case
Trump has been stringing together a series of tactical judicial wins, as a team of lawyers has executive maneuvers to delay criminal proceedings or get judges to consider motions that could end up pushing back court dates until well into the summer or after the November elections.
But Monday could be the day Trump feels the most real world pain since he had to be processed and fingerprinted in a Georgia courthouse.
New York DA Letitia James has said if Trump hasn't made good on a $454 million court judgement against him by then from his New York fraud trial, she will begin seizing properties – hitting that Trump's prized Art Deco skyscraper 40 Wall Street could be in her sights.
She also appears to be eyeing Trump's Westchester golf club and Seven Springs estate, registering judgments in Westchester County.
The former president was boiling over online at the prospects the state may act against him. He wrote a series of fundraising pitches telling New York to 'keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower.'
Then he fulminated online about the judge who slapped the stunning $454 more award on him – which increases by more than $100,000 per day as he moves to appeal.
'Arthur Engoron is a Rogue Judge who was intimidated by the big, nasty, and ugly mouth of Leticia James, considered by many to be the WORST Attorney General in the U.S. She is a Low IQ individual who campaigned for
