Mueller and civil forfeiture. (Pure speculation.)

[DetlefK]

Could the cops confiscate Trump's property over an alleged violation of the emoluments clause?

Per the rules of civil forfeiture, he would only get it back if he can prove in court that he had not bought it with illegally gotten money...

[lagomorph777]

1. Civil forfeiture has been massively expanded under RICO and drug laws.

This could turn out to be important, if indeed Turd actually has any assets.

[Calista241]

2. Hes only been in office a year, and to my knowledge, the Trump organization

Hasn’t acquired any new property in that time. Civil forfeiture is normally applied to assets obtained from illegal activity. Seizing something previously owned by the Trump org, and purchased through legitimate means would be very difficult.

If this ever did come up, the Trump organization could surrender any profits / earnings obtained by people petitioning the White House or whatever standard you want to use to avoid forfeiture. It would probably be a little extreme to seize a $250 million dollar property because of a couple million dollars in foreign government related revenues.

Donation of these revenues from government related foreign nationals is something trump promised to do, but I haven’t seen any action on it yet. If he does donate those moneys, it’s probably something he’d do at the end of the Trump organization’s fiscal year. And they'd make a YUGE deal of it to the press.

[PoliticAverse]

3. No. Can you can cite a specific law enforcing the "emoluments clause"? n/t

[DetlefK]

4. It doesn't have to be the emoluments clause. It could be money-laundering.

The "Trump Soho"-project was built with Felix Sater as co-investor. Felix Sater has ties to the russian mob and the russian mob is using real estate deals in the US to launder money. (Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen sold a house worth $2 million for $10 million in cash to some russian buyers.)