Conservative pollster Frank Luntz broke the fourth wall to warn New York Attorney General Letitia James to hold off seizing Trump's stuff.
"And I say this to the Attorney General right now," he said, aiming his right index finger into the CNN studio camera. "If you play politics on this, this is what the Secretary of State did in Colorado and what they did in I believe Maine -- his numbers went up in both states."
"I don't understand. I'm almost speechless. And how pathetic the opposition to Trump has been, and how completely misguided — this is a perfect example of it."
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Luntz had been poised to discuss his thoughts about what the political results would be should the former president be unable to find company willing to underwrite his $464 million bond that was set by a New York judge as damages for he and his company The Trump Organization committing widespread fraud for years to win favorable deals and loans.
Already, New York officials have entered the judgment from Trump's civil fraud trial in Manhattan with the county clerk's office in Westchester easing the way for James to seize Trump National Golf Course in Briarcliff Manor and his private estate of Seven Springs in Bedford, if he comes up short of securing the bond while he appeals.
By mentioning Colorado and Maine, Luntz was referencing the two state secretaries that had a hand in different processes of booting Trump off the GOP primary ballot, before he was reinstated.
For Luntz, it is pure political suicide for the Democrats to revel during Trump's financially vulnerable hour.
"I want you to remember this moment and don't forget it: if the New York Attorney General starts to take his homes away, starts to seize his assets so it's all going to be on-camera, and pundits are going to sit and scream about this — 'This man cannot be elected!' — you're going to create the greatest victimhood of 2024, and you're going to elect Donald Trump."
He went further.
"If they take his stuff, he's going to say 'That this is proof that the federal government and the establishment in the swamp and Washington and all the politicians across the country and the attorney generals and all of this that this is a conspiracy to deny him the presidency," Luntz said.
If this happens, the pollster predicts it will earn him empathy from the American people and give him enough juice to win come November 5.
"He's going to go up in the polls, just like he went up every single time they indicted him... The indictment let's not talk about whether it's justified or not, but it will prove the things that he's saying on the campaign trail and he will go up and he may just get elected president. Do not forget that."
