New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman recently disclosed what her insider sources have stated regarding former President Donald Trump’s rage over potential property seizures and maybe even the “B”-word which is bankruptcy via Mediaite.
It has been noted that there has been speculation about how Trump will pay the bond to appeal payment of the fraud judgment that could cost him over $460 million if appeals are unsuccessful. The deadline for that bond, if the appeals court doesn’t intervene, is Monday.
On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, guest anchor Boris Sanchez asked Haberman — whose network of Trumpworld sources gives her up-to-the-minute insights — what they’re saying in Trumpworld.
Haberman revealed Trump is raging in private as much as he is in public, and that he is resisting the idea of bankruptcy — but it’s not off the table:
SANCHEZ: So, Trump is lashing out at Letitia James on social media as she’s already taking steps to potentially seize his properties in New York. In talking to your sources, how consumed is the former president by this threat to his business empire?
MAGGIE HABERMAN: Look, he’s very, very concerned about it. It is not the only thing that he talks about, but he does rail about Letitia James in private. He does talk about how unfair he thinks the case is. There’s no difference, Boris, between what he’s saying publicly and what he’s saying privately.
The one thing I would say is I know that he is opposed personally to filing for bankruptcy. He has been very scarred by the bankruptcies that were filed against his companies in the early 1990s. This one would be personal to him in a different way. But it is not something that has been totally ruled out as a possibility. And, again, I don’t think it’s likely. It’s something that could hurt him politically in a campaign. But it is not entirely off the table.
SANCHEZ: But we’ve seen Donald Trump use things that would seemingly totally derail other candidates, other politicians, to his advantage. I’m wondering if you see that he might find a potential political benefit to effectively forcing Letitia James to seize his properties.
HABERMAN: That’s a discussion that’s taking place among some of his advisers. I don’t think that Donald Trump left to his own devices, wants someone taking his properties. I just don’t, just based on everything that we know about him. But I do think that there are people who are telling him that there could be political advantage to it. And it’s not clear to me that they’re wrong. I think that, you know, if you have somebody who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, they are a former president, and their assets are seized. There are going to be a lot of people who rise against this.
You know, Trump has been leaning in very aggressively to the idea that business people in New York are recoiling from this judgment, because they fear that it could happen to them.
Now, I think he’s overstating that. But I think, unlike when he says to his supporters at rallies, you know, if they can do this to me, they can do this to you. In the case of something affecting business, I do think that that concerns business officials and executives a little bit more than, say, the average voter being worried about being indicted.
