Donald Trump's recent cash flex could backfire bigly. As the looming Monday deadline nears to pony up on a $464 million bond set in his civil fraud disgorgement trial loss, Trump went out on a bold limb to post a Truth Social all-caps screed declaring he was cash rich. "THROUGH HARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK, I CURRENTLY HAVE ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WHICH I INTENDED TO USE IN MY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT," former President
Donald Trump writes in the post . ALSO READ: Here's why conservative elites are bailing on Trump now This revelation of hard currency in his hands right now had former federal prosecutor Ryan Goodman suggesting it could open up a window for
New York Attorney Letitia James. "If it's all true that also means he is sitting on north are $400 million and that's exactly what the attorney general can go after these properties," he said while appearing on CNN's "Out Front." "It's easier to go after the liquid assets than it is to go after these properties; it also avoids some of the optics of going after the properties." The main takeaway: cash can be hers for the seizing. "That's available to her to do," he said. Trump must post the bond for the full amount by the deadline or face James, who brought the case, using her powers to seize any of his real estate properties or bank accounts. So far lawyers for the 45th president are appealing the judgment and also admitted in a court filing that he has been unable to secure a bond . Watch the video below or click the link right here. Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) is beside himself with anger about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her threatened motion to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). In an interview with right-wing Newsmax host Greg Schmitt, Murphy in particular attacked Greene for fundraising off her threat to remove Johnson and throw the House into chaos once again. "Let me just talk back to this vacate measure, this asinine thing pushed by Matt Gaetz when he had that rift with McCarthy, and he did, just, sadly enough, I just received a text just 30 minutes ago from Marjorie, saying, I'm wanting to raise money on this," said Murphy. "Matt Gaetz raised money the whole week, or the whole time he was creating chaos. This is not what it's supposed to be. This is not what adults in the room do." ALSO READ: Here's why conservative elites are bailing on Trump now As a condition of initially receiving the votes to become speaker, Kevin McCarthy agreed to a rule where any single member could move to vacate the chair. He was ousted last year, ostensibly because he broke deals with the Freedom Caucus, but Gaetz has reportedly privately told allies he instigated the removal as revenge for a House Ethics Committee probe into Gaetz's conduct. Greene, who is threatening Johnson for agreeing to spending bills that would avert a
Government Shutdown, has not actually filed such a motion yet, but could do so at any time unilaterally. Complicating matters further, Republicans' House majority is slimmer than it was when McCarthy was ousted, due to multiple members resigning and a special
election flipping a seat in New York from the GOP to the
Democrats. Watch the video below or at the link. — (@) CONTINUE READING Show less Former President Donald Trump is hoping that the Truth Social merger will give him a large enough wealth infusion to get a handle on his multiple legal judgments, at least as long as he can get them appealed — and he claimed on Truth Social that he has already come up with the half a billion dollars he needs in any case. But the sheer amount of money he owes is only one of the problems for him, MSNBC reporter Adam Reiss told anchor Chris Hayes on Friday. Another is the eagle-eyed scrutiny and restrictions the courts have placed his real estate empire under. "He says he has the cash on Truth Social," said Hayes. "If he had the cash, we probably wouldn't be in this situation, right? Is that a fair determination?" ALSO READ: Here's why conservative elites are bailing on Trump now "Yeah," said Reiss. "When the E. Jean Carroll case happened, he had the bond but was still asking the court for more time. It's possible he actually has the money right now. I don't think that's the case. So we're going to get to Monday, and it's going to be a showdown." "Showdown like where?" said Hayes. "Showdown at court? Like with Judge Engoron?" "We need to keep a close eye on the docket," said Hayes. "Judge Engoron is tightening the screws on him. The Trump Organization, essentially, can't do anything without the court and the monitor knowing. She is on top of it. She's been there for about 16 months. Anything they do. Transfers of funds. Financial accounting. Moving money from one source to another." Watch the video below or at the link here. Adam Reiss says Trump Organization is at the mercy of the courts youtu.be CONTINUE READING Show less Donald Trump's niece is spilling her family's beans. Mary Trump , a psychologist by profession, has become known for her critiques of her uncle. Recently, she noted that the ex-president is being pushed "closer to the edge" due to the New York fraud case in which he was found to owe hundreds of millions of dollars. On Friday, Mary Trump announced a memoir touching on all these family issues and much more. ALSO READ: Here's why conservative elites are bailing on Trump now Mary Trump said in a post on her Substack that the new book, which will reportedly be published by St. Martin's Press in September, is called Who Could Ever Love You - a Family Memoir. She calls the project "an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family's exile." "Mary Trump brings us inside the twisted family whose patriarch ignored, froze out, and eventually destroyed his own. Freddy Trump’s decline into alcoholism and illness, along with Linda’s suffering after their divorce, left Mary dangerously vulnerable as a very young girl," according to the preview. "Inadequately and only conditionally loved, there were no adults in her life except for the father she loved, but lost before she could know him; and a mother abandoned by her ex-husband’s rich and powerful family who demanded her loyalty but left her with nothing." The summary continues: "Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch’s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump, and Linda Clapp, a flight attendant from a working-class family, Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy’s humiliation at the hands of his father." Finally, the preview touches on her uncle's behavior. "Fred Trump embodied the ethos of the zero-sum game and among his five children, there could only be one winner. That was supposed to be Freddy, his namesake, but Fred found him wanting — too sensitive, too kind, too interested in pursuits beyond the realm of the real estate empire he was meant to inherit," it says. "In Donald, Fred found a kindred spirit, a 'killer,' who would stop at nothing to get his own way." Read the post right here. CONTINUE READING Show less