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So fucking what? If they were used to enrich a criminal enterprise then they should be auctioned off.
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The homestead exemption protects people from being forced to sell their home to satisfy a debt (in many states it also exempts a portion of the home’s value from property taxes), but if an LLC owns it and they don’t, those same protections don’t apply. If, instead of Trump putting his home in his own name, he assigned it to an LLC, he did so to get some sort of a benefit. Potentially losing his home is the cost he of that decision.
Caveat: if the LLC was renting the property to Trump and they had an explicit lease with a definite term, then some protections might apply.
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One interesting twist that I've heard is that Trump put his naming rights in the LLC also. It's possible that the rights to the Trump name get sold to some bidder.
If so, who wants to get together and buy the rights? I'm thinking we can make Trump Brand Liberal Trading cards (celebrating liberal icons who made great strides in civil rights, worker protections, etc). Then there could be Trump Brand Clothing - designed for LGBTQ people. And so on. With 0% of proceeds going to Donald What's-His-Name. I imagine right wing heads would explode from having to oppose Trump branded items.
Friendly reminder that Trump living at MAL is a violation of his property deed