As Donald Trump prepares for upcoming legal proceedings, including a trial set for next week for which neither party expects any delays and a later hearing concerning a questionable quasi-bond in a civil fraud case, the possibility grows that the New York Attorney General’s office may soon begin to seize Trump’s assets to cover the approximately half-billion dollar judgment leveled against him.
These circumstances have led many to wonder which of his assets, if seized, would most annoy the former President. Following a survey conducted among readers, a seeming ‘champion’ has emerged – Mar-a-Lago. This 17-acre club, home to 58 bedrooms and 33 bathrooms, was originally the winter residence of Marjorie Merriweather Post, a former executive with General Foods. According to the survey, this is the asset that readers believe Trump would most hate to lose.
The question of which of his assets to seize first has been a topic of substantial debate, with several rounds of deliberation documented on Above the Law, including the ‘Championship Round’ of potential seizures, and the so-called ‘Forfeiture Four’ and ‘Excisable Eight’.
This exercise presents both a sobering picture of the scale of the legal challenges facing Trump and an amusing speculation on which seizure might most get under his skin. Such conjecture, while entertaining, underscores the very real struggle many former leaders face when confronting the consequences of their actions while in office.