Trump's 'parking lot lawyer' will cost him Trump Tower: Rick Wilson
Anti-Trump political strategist Rick Wilson taunted the former president on Tuesday by floating the seizure of his prized Trump Tower as the price he'll have to pay after being found liable for massive financial fraud.
Writing on his Substack page, Wilson argued that Trump's "long con" that propelled him to both wealth and the White House was coming to an end after decades of lies start to catch up with him.
"It’s all falling apart," Wilson argued. "His longtime financial mastermind, Alan Weisselberg, is headed for prison. His onetime consigliere, Michael Cohen, a man railroaded into prison by Trump and born again hard, gave the courts the keys to the inner workings of Trump’s corrupt enterprise."
Wilson acknowledges that Trump losing legal battles only helps him shore up support among his diehard supporters, but he said that won't ease the sting of having the state of New York take control of some of his prized properties.
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"Trump’s properties are the physical manifestation of his ego," Wilson contends. "Trump Tower was its epicenter for decades. Today, it’s Mar-a-Lago. Will Trump try to make himself a martyr and claim it’s the evil deep state trying to hurt him? He already has, but none of it will change the fact that his parking-lot lawyer blew the case, that the facts are utterly damning, that the pattern of fraud is explicit and vast, and that Trump is broke."
Wilson then ponders the strange phenomenon of Trump supporters who seem personally invested in him keeping his iconic New York building.
"It’s one of the weird tricks the authoritarian addiction plays on their minds; they see his long pattern of fraud as good business practices and see Trump’s self-inflicted losses as an attack on themselves," he writes. "Not to worry; anyone outraged over seeing his properties seized for the fraud he committed was already a Trump voter."
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