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There are absolutely people / families with a lot of influence and power. But if you seized the personal assets of one of them you'd have enough money for maybe one Aircraft Carrier. Much less everything else the US does or the amount of damage Trump has done to the US economy / infrastructure / reputation.
Jail them, regulate them, and for God's sake tax them. But seizing, at most, a few billion in assets from one group of individuals is nothing when the US military alone spends about a trillion a year.
I don't think you grasp the amount of wealth we are talking about. It's not assets you can "seize". It's far more than that.
These families are older than the USA, older than most of the governments in Europe. We're talking families that were around since the gilded age, controlling banking and other assets that formed nations.
One family may not have the wealth to out spend the USA, they definitely can outbid 90% of the nations on Earth, and they are international.