Don Peebles, a former top fundraiser for both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, criticized New York State Attorney General Letitia James for expediting an attempt to seize former President Donald Trump’s assets.
Peebles believes James is pursuing Trump properties with all guns blazing due to the likelihood of Trump winning the appeal.
He spoke to Fox News about the issue and emphasized that he is a big supporter of the AG’s work to support minority-owned businesses.
That said, Peebles argued that Trump’s massive $454 million fine, which he owes the state following a civil fraud lawsuit, is excessive. His comments suggest a belief that James persecuted the former president, not on the basis of law enforcement, but as a personal attack.
“I expressed concern because I think this is a very slippery slope to selectively enforce an archaic law that has no victims,” he said.
Perhaps the most intriguing argument made by Peebles is that Letitia James is pursuing Trump’s properties because she knows she will win her appeal.
Don Peebles, (National Finance Committee for Clinton and OBama and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation) says…
Letitia James has gone too far and the case against Trump is a victimless case and should never have been pursued. .… pic.twitter.com/momL7Jvj8V
— Tim Krachenfels (@Dozen4Trump_DAD) March 22, 2024
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James made it clear that if Trump is unable to pay, he will continue collection efforts. Reports have indicated that Trump is struggling to secure an unprecedented bond of nearly half a billion dollars.
His properties, including Trump Tower and some of his golf courses, could be seized unless he can find a way to pay the fine in full or secure bail before Monday.
James and his team have already begun steps to seize Trump’s assets.
Peebles told Fox that the New York AG would normally allow Trump to go through the appeals process first. Unless. Unless she was sure that her cause would be successful.
“I think they are confident, or I think it is likely that the situation will be reversed, and then there will be no punishment,” he said.
“So they are rushing to inflict as much pain on him as possible right now because once the appeals court puts a stop to this, there will be no repercussions,” Peebles added.
He also suggested that the entire case was a “tactic” to distract Trump from the campaign. Critics have suggested that this is the basis for All of the legal proceedings against Trump.
How eccentric and crazy do you have to be for a prominent Democrat to point it out? Peebles’ comments open the door to the question of whether or not Judge Arthur Engoron issued the outlandish ruling as a means to give James a window to seize Trump’s properties.
They prosecute Trump using an archaic law and impose an absurd fine. James moves hastily to withdraw. So is the sentence overturned on appeal? But has he already seized the properties? He seems almost coordinated.
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Peebles’ comments echo those of Shark tank star Kevin O’Leary who accused Letitia James of behaving like a third world thug.
“Forget Trump. Nothing to do with Trump. Do you think this is good for business in New York? Do you think this is good for business in America? O’Leary asked in an interview with CNN.
“Take a law that we use to protect people from buying refrigerators at an overpriced value decades ago, and enforce it against an individual and then talk about seizing assets like what happened in Venezuela or Cuba?”
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“This may be great for the attorney general, but it’s not good for America.”
“Forget Trump. You… pic.twitter.com/yzb6YhPKfc
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 19, 2024
But wow, doesn’t Peebles’ theory sound plausible? Perhaps it was simply a means to seize Trump’s property.
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy believes Letitia James should be disbarred.
“Letitia James should be disbarred. You are baselessly prosecuting Trump,” Ramaswamy said. “Prosecutes meat producers in the name of fighting climate change.”
“Now the FDNY firefighters who dared to blow the whistle and exercise their First Amendment rights are being punished. This is not American.”
Peebles, meanwhile, told Fox last month that Democrats need to distance themselves from President Biden.
“I don’t see how he can beat Donald Trump,” the former Obama campaign official said.
“If everything that has been thrown at the former president has been thrown at him and he is still ahead in the polls, he is telling all of us something that Americans don’t want [Biden] and this administration, and it’s time for it to move forward for the good of the country.”
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