If Trump loses fraud case he'll spin it as a personal decision to leave NYC: ex-associate

If former President Donald Trump is prohibited from doing business in the state of New York, he will try to play it off as if he's leaving the state due to bad business practices, predicted former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res.

The comments follow a day of chaotic testimony by the former president in the civil fraud trial in New York, where state Attorney General Letitia James is seeking the dissolution of his companies, as well as $250 million in fines.

"Is it possible to think that Donald Trump's apartment is 30,000 square feet and not 10,000 square feet?" asked MSNBC anchor Katy Tur.

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"I don't think the building's big enough for that to be 30,000 square feet, no," said Res. "It's nothing like that when I built it. And I don't think it's changed."

"You have spent more time around Donald Trump, the businessman, than most people," Tur followed up later in the segment. "What would it mean to him if he were not able to operate his business the way it's operated now? If he were not able to run the Trump business out of New York ever again?"

"You know, initially I think — I thought, and I still think he would not be happy about that, he would be very unhappy about it, but, you know, he moved to Florida, he was living in Trump Tower, and he moved to Florida," said Res. "The business he does now is mostly licensing. He really doesn't need a New York presence. And I think that if he were to have to leave New York, he would spin it so that he made that decision, you know, the rules in New York are too tough or blah blah blah, but if he does any building in the future, it will probably be out of the country. So, I don't know that the — you know, needing a New York office is so important. It's a terrible blow to him that that's what moves his business."

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