'Except he doesn't': MSNBC host roasts Alina Habba's brag that Trump has a 'lot of cash'

Former President Donald Trump and his attorney Alina Habba got a vigorous roasting on MSNBC's "The Beat" Friday, with anchor Ari Melber highlighting their proud boasts they could afford to pay any civil judgment, only to backtrack and frantically try to delay even putting up the bond to appeal their $464 million civil fraud case.

"I want to put the context out here: if a truly multi-billionaire person were facing this type of legal problem, say Elon Musk, they wouldn't be haggling with the courts about a partial bond or delaying putting up the money," said Melber, himself an attorney. "Elon Musk wouldn't have a problem of putting up this bond for the purposes of appeal, what we're talking about. And not only that, but Trump's problems this week, where his lawyers are saying, we don't have it, we'd have to sell property, we don't have that kind of money lying around, that directly contradicts what his lawyers said as recently as last week about Trump's supposed net worth."

Melber then played several clips of Habba making the rounds on cable news to brag about her client's wealth.

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"This guy's worth a lot of money, billions and billions and billions of dollars," she said in one clip. "I mean, he — of course he has money. You know, he's a billionaire," she said in another. "Unfortunately they picked the wrong guy to pick on, in my opinion. because he's strong, he's resilient, and he happens to have a lot of cash," she said in yet another.

"He happens to have a lot of cash — except he doesn't," said Melber. "Again, there's a difference between what they say on Fox or in public, and what they have to say in court. And even if he's been effective delaying certain things, this is where the rubber meets the road. Look at this statement from Trump's lawyers. 'Properties would likely need to be sold to raise the capital.' In other words, they don't have it, whatever the other lawyer who you just heard from last week said was not true, according to the lawyers now. And the Attorney General is not going to just let Donald Trump slow-walk all of this, or lie about it in public. Her office has already put his team on notice that Trump all but concedes he has insufficient liquid assets to pay, to satisfy the judgment."

And what that means, he added, is that Attorney General Letitia James is entitled under New York law to "go ahead and seize things, for example, bank accounts, take control of properties."

"I mentioned Elon Musk is one comparison, who's had litigation and paid out certain things, and a lot of people have dealt with legal problems, and had to pay for bonds," Melber continued. "In fact, it's something that people with legal experience talk openly about. Take 21 Savage, who said, 'I wear them shades so they can't see, and I pay them lawyers and the bond fees, thousands, I'm beyond G, they still asking, can you front me?'"

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