Charles Gasparino
Politics
Published
Feb. 17, 2024, 7:40 p.m. ET
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign event ahead of the Republican presidential primary election in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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The men and women who run Gotham’s big banks and financial firms have had a long and somewhat tortured history with the former president dating back from his days as a real estate mogul.
Yet they see what’s happening to Donald Trump in the byzantine Letitia James bank-fraud prosecution and the over-the-top penalties issued by a state judge that could bankrupt Trump over relatively little.
They know they could be next — unless of course, they get out of Gotham, and fast.
That’s the word I’m…
