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‘This is a Death Blow to Trump’s Businesses’: George Conway Says Donald Will Have to Sell Mar-a-Lago and It Will Devastate Him

He should know - he was married to Trump's senior advisor.

Maybe you only know George Conway as Kellyanne’s husband. Maybe you only know him as a Trump critic, or more importantly, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project with other Never Trumper Republicans.

I bet you forgot, however, that George Conway is a lawyer first and foremost. He was before he ever met Kellyanne, and he certainly was before Trump became President.

As an attorney, you have knowledge of the way things work legally that the layman simply doesn’t have. For example, many regular people had no idea why Fani Willis charged so many people in Georgia, only to see that she had been planning all along to turn some of them into witnesses against Trump.

Some other lawyers understand how things work in a more nefarious way: Rudy Giuliani was able to pull enough strings to get himself to Ukraine and get an audience with President Zelenskyy in order to try and blackmail him into digging up dirt on Joe Biden before the 2020 election.

But George Conway has a more fundamental understanding of the simplicities and math of the legal world. And what he says may happen to Trump definitely has merit.

After Judge Arthur Engoron entered a summary judgment against Trump and two of his sons (along with others in the Trump Organization) stating that they were guilty of fraud, it seemed all that was left to do is see how much restitution Trump was going to owe in the case.

After all, what the judge found — that Trump grossly overstated his worth by billions of dollars in order to cheat banks and insurance companies — isn’t something that a poor man has the means to do. The punishment will fit the crime, right?

George Conway believes that Trump may be forced to sell his prized resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Mar-a-Lago is currently valued at up to $37 million. That’s not even twenty percent of the $250 million that NY Attorney General Letitia James is seeking in the civil fraud trial.

Talking about it with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on her show, Conway said:

He’s already been found to have committed fraud, that his books and records, that his statements of financial condition, are false.

And the judge has already ruled that there was no triable issue of fact on whether or not they were false. And as a result, the judge said, ordered, that Trump and The Trump Organization, [their] ability to do business in the state of New York should be invalidated.

And that puts him out of business, which means he’s going to have to liquidate everything—including places like Mar-a-Lago, which are owned by New York LLCs. But then the question of how much of the proceeds of those sales, when he has to be put out of business, go to the state of New York. And that’s what this is about.

Their right to do business in New York is canceled, as is the certificates of incorporation of the various LLCs and companies that he himself owns that are incorporated in New York. So, he can’t do business.

This is a death blow to Trump’s businesses.

That, I think, is definitely a punishment that fits the crime.

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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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