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Former president blasts New York Attorney General Letitia James as an ‘insane radical’ in a desperate plea for cash – claiming Democrats are trying to ‘intimidate’ him into abandoning his campaign for the White House

Donald Trump has sent out a panicked fundraising message to his supporters as he begs them to help foot his ballooning legal bills. 

The desperate memo, titled “Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!”, comes as the Monday deadline to pay his $464m bond in his New York fraud trial judgement ticks ever closer.

“KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!” the text reads, linking to an accompanying memo that states: “Insane radical Democrat AG Letitia Jameswants to SEIZE my properties in New York. THIS INCLUDES THE ICONIC TRUMP TOWER!”

It continues: “Democrats think this will intimidate me. They think that if they take my cash to stifle my campaign, that I’ll give up! Here’s one thing they don’t know: WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!”

The frantic tone of the plea stands in stark contrast to the statement issued by Trump spokesman Steven Cheung to CNN on Wednesday in which he dismissed the network’s reporting that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was in “panic mode” over the matter as “pure bulls*** and fake news”.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

Probably shouldn't have committed all that fraud then.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

I really hate the title template of "[click-driving quote], explanation" but if you're going to do it, shouldn't the two parts of the headline be related? The quote is him talking to James, the explanation is him talking to voters. Weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Babyllionaire begar

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Guess we shall now see if human stupidity really is infinite...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Well that might take a while longer than he has lol

Edit: 21:00 CET, so over 24h later... well that's not going well, isn't it :-D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This is the first time I wish I could donate against something. Like, pay them $100 so they subtract $50 from the collected donations :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I am impressed it’s that high. ~60$ per donor. Will be funny when none of it gets to trump and whoever set this up spends it all.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe we should stop calling it taxes and just start a GoFundMe for universal health care, it seems to be more effective lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

"there's only two things guaranteed in life, death and GoFundMes"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Please tell me that some random jerk set that up and is pocketing all of the proceeds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Setup by the wife of a CEO, sounds like a grift to me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I didnt check if its only funded if the target is reached or whether its all cash taken at donation. Its very likely the latter because the grift aint gonna grift itself!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

God why didn't I think of that...

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago

We've gone from Charleton Heston talking about guns, "From my cold dead hands!" to DJ Trump saying, "KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!" as if they were some sort of American national monument and not the sleezy shithole that it is.

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