Final month, a New York choose imposed a $454 million penalty on Mr. Trump within the civil fraud case after concluding that the previous president had fraudulently inflated the worth of his firm’s properties and his internet price to acquire favorable loans and different advantages from banks.
Mr. Trump has appealed the judgment, and was given till Monday to both write a examine to the state court docket system for the complete quantity or acquire an enchantment bond. However his legal professionals stated final week that he had been unable to safe the bond, elevating the prospect that Ms. James might transfer to gather the cash and attempt to seize a number of the properties concerned within the case.
Ms. James, a Democrat, has signaled that she is ready to take action, and Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign has made that competition a focus of its fund-raising emails. On Wednesday, in an e mail with the topic line “Arms off Trump Tower!,” Mr. Trump accused her of attempting to “go after the ICONIC Trump Tower.”
In one other e mail, Mr. Trump claimed that “maniacs” have been attempting to grab the property.
Trump Tower, which is on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, holds a central place in Mr. Trump’s superstar and political rise. In 2015, he descended an escalator within the constructing to announce his first run for president.
In an e mail despatched on Friday, Mr. Trump emphasised that centrality. “Our motion began on the golden escalator in Trump Tower!,” he wrote in all caps. “Now Democrats need to seize it!” In one other message, on Thursday, he insisted that “Trump Tower is mine!” and accused Ms. James of being a “rabid Trump-hating Democrat.”