George Conway: Trump is ‘Terrified’ His Civil Fraud Case Will Put Him ‘Out of Business’

Conservative attorney and Washington Post contributing columnist George Conway assessed Donald Trump has personally involved himself in his New York civil business fraud trial because so much is at stake for him.

Conway was on Morning Joe on Monday, where Mika Brzezinski raised the prospect that “this one gets [Trump] where it really hurts.” Conway called this “more fundamental” by pointing out how the trial could devastate Trump’s real estate empire, strip him of his holdings, and ban him from doing business in New York.

This puts him out of business. This case is putting him out of business. And that’s his essence. And I think that he’s just he’s terrified that, you know, he’s not going to have the Trump Tower, and he’s not going to have all the things that he has bragged about for decades, for six decades. That’s going to be gone, and he won’t be able to run a business, and the question is how much money is he going to be allowed to keep from that? And that to him is striking at the core of Donald Trump?

This went on with Conway explaining how Trump paid up the $10,000 fine he received for bashing the trial court staff in violation of his gag order. He also noted that Trump could go to jail “if he keeps gauging in misconduct” like this.

Brzezinski was skeptical about putting Trump in jail, so she returned to her previous question by asking if Trump could face bigger fines if he continued acting out.

“Yes. The fines can get bigger and bigger,” Conway said. “One method that has been used by courts in the past to enforce criminal contempt sanctions or civil contempt sanctions is to keep increasing the fines geometrically. You know, 1000, 10,000, 100,000. Justice Engoron could keep ramping those figures up. He certainly has a record to do that, having basically had Trump violate the order multiple times right under the just the judge’s nose in the courthouse.”

Watch above via MSNBC.