‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’: Trump begs fans to pay his $464m bond - Lemmy.World

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 [https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/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 [https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/trump-tower]!”, comes as the Monday deadline to pay his $464m bond in his New York [https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/new-york] fraud trial judgement ticks ever closer [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-truth-social-fani-willis-latest-b2516202.html]. “KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!” the text reads [https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/03/20/trump-campaign-fundraising-civil-fraud-case-bond-lead-vpx.cnn], linking to an accompanying memo that states: “Insane radical Democrat AG Letitia James [https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/letitia-james]wants 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 [https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/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” [https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4544599-trump-campaign-calls-cnn-report-on-increasing-bond-concerns-pure-bulls/].