Sarah Burris is a long-time veteran of political campaigns, having worked as a fundraiser and media director across the United States. She transitioned into reporting while working for Rock the Vote, Future Majority and Wiretap Magazine, covering the Millennial Generation's perspective during the presidential elections. As a political writer, Burris has had bylines at CNN, Salon.com, BNR, and AlterNet and serves as a senior digital editor for RawStory.com.
Donald Trump was recently put under additional scrutiny in the civil fraud case in which he was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars, and one legal analyst labeled it "poetic justice."
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, where the host asked him about Engoron's expanded role for the court monitor.
"The judge is saying to Barbara Jones, get your hands on every single thing they said to the insurance company to see what they actually said to them about this," Kirschner said. "It is interesting. It feels like Judge Engoron promoted Barbara Jones to an enhanced monitor and that she is to guard against, among other things, any transfer or dissipation of any assets by Donald Trump."
"I read through the order and I have to admit my favorite part is when he empowers Barbara Jones to hire any and all outside professionals to help guard against wrongful transfer or dissipation of any of his assets and Donald Trump has to pay for it," Kirschner said. "It is, I think, poetic justice that Donald Trump will be hiring the watchdogs that are keeping guard over Donald Trump to make sure he does not mishandle any of his assets."
The Donald Trump brand has always been gilded in gold. But the former president's cash crunch of late is reportedly causing concern.
Former Donald Trump communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin appearing on CNN explained that Trump world is disconcerted in publicly being shown to struggle with paying the $464 million sum set by a New York judge as part of the trial that found he and The Trump Organization committed fraud for years.
"It's incredibly bad," she said. "This is a total blow to the brand of Trump; Trump is as much a brand as he is a businessman in some ways, even more so."
"Well, I think that's how he was able to get away with inflating his wealth, with being able to secure loans that were completely out of step with what his properties were actually value that."
Griffin fears that the 45th president, who has all but solidified the GOP nomination, could end up being forced to compromise himself and the country for a quick money fix.
"What I'm worried about is this, when Donald Trump is backed into a corner, he gets reckless and he makes reckless decisions," she said. "This may very well move forward next week and they starts seizing properties taken away from him."
"Where's he going to turn?"
Griffin has conjured what some are also concerned about: that there's a possibility "he's going to look to foreign" entities.
"It could be adversaries that could be individuals within nations or adversaries to lend him money if he's not able to secure loans here," she said. "And I think that's a very real possibility that folks need to be thinking about in the broader context of this."
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."
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."