Former president blasts New York Attorney General Letitia James as an ‘insane radical’ in a desperate plea for cash – claiming Democrats are trying to ‘intimidate’ him into abandoning his campaign for the White House
Donald Trump has sent out a panicked fundraising message to his supporters as he begs them to help foot his ballooning legal bills.
The desperate memo, titled “Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!”, comes as the Monday deadline to pay his $464m bond in his New York fraud trial judgement ticks ever closer.
“KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!” the text reads, linking to an accompanying memo that states: “Insane radical Democrat AG Letitia Jameswants to SEIZE my properties in New York. THIS INCLUDES THE ICONIC TRUMP TOWER!”
It continues: “Democrats think this will intimidate me. They think that if they take my cash to stifle my campaign, that I’ll give up! Here’s one thing they don’t know: WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!”
The frantic tone of the plea stands in stark contrast to the statement issued by Trump spokesman Steven Cheung to CNN on Wednesday in which he dismissed the network’s reporting that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was in “panic mode” over the matter as “pure bulls*** and fake news”.
Robert Reich posted this the other day and I can’t help but think this is probably more accurate than anyone in the Trump org wants to admit.
Alternatively, putting them up for collateral would require their real valuation to be assessed, which someone guilty of lying about their worth for sure wouldn’t want to be known.
I could imagine banks being suspicious after that trial as well.
Hell, the NYAG would be interested, because just that fact would probably tank his appeal instantly.
“Your Honor, the value of the property Defendant put up as collateral for this appeal is less than the value of the property Defendant has claimed on his taxes and more than the value of the property the Defendant has claimed in various loan applications, and I need not remind the court they’re all the same property, therefore we move to dismiss this appeal because duh.”
That’s the real reason he’s scared now, it’ll be known how little he actually has in equity once the AG has to start selling them off.
I hope not, but I think there’s a strong possibility that Trump has a devil’s bargain available to get him the money but it’s almost worse than everyone knowing he’s pretty broke. Mean maybe not since that’s his whole charade, he pretty much kowtowed to Putin in front of cameras at Helsinki (think that’s the spot where he denied US intelligence agencie’s opinion) so here’s to hoping he’s actually going to have at least some comeuppance to his life of fraud.
Meh, he would just sell it to the magas that all the other billionaires are lowballing the values to take advantage of him. And the new “low” valuations are just out to bankrupt him.
“We both know it’s worth bigly more, your hones”
Don’t fool yourself into thinking Trump has no money. He does have money, he’s just lying about the amount.
The answer is probably very simple. He probably has enough assets to pledge them as collateral for a loan, but he doesn’t want to. He wants other people to pay instead. That’s how he always works and why no one in NYC will do business with him.
The fine becomes payable with interest if you lose the case on appeal, which is nearly inevitable.
So he may be able to post bond by collateralising assets but is he able to pay the fine when he inevitably loses the appeal?
Also bond loans are not free. That’s what he’s afraid of - singing off a building’s ownership to a bond holding company means it’s gone.
He’d rather fight the procedural slow-moving government instead of a company whose actual job is relieving people of assets all day long.
His father bought like $3Million in chips from the Trump’s Castle Casino in Atlantic City when it started going under. Like, Fred Trump Sr. sent a chauffeur with a briefcase full of cash to buy $3M worth of chips, put them in the briefcase, and leave.
Pretty much… why pay anything at all if you can get somebody else to do it.
He doesn’t want to pay for it. He doesn’t want to pay the loan fees. The rich have always factually been above the law and in this case there seems to be more than a few people who are willing to go along with just giving the guy stacks of cash. Even if someone offered him the full amount i’m guessing he would keep soliciting for donations for it to see what he could get out of it.
It’s business fraud 101 and he’s a master of it. He wouldn’t be where he was if he was stupid.
He’s also trying to sway public opinion to be on his side, it props up his campaign and is on message of being politically persecuted whether or not it’s true. It’s on message with the republican party’s “the democrats are the enemy” unification strategy too. If the judge backs down and asks for less or maybe even nothing at all then suddenly he’s off scot free until the appeal is done. Odds are the appeal would not increase the fines either.
During the deregulation era (70/80’s) lots of stupid people made millions. Having lots of money does not mean you’re smart. Donald is not smart just rich , and that may be a lie too.
Any value Trump may have is 100% on paper
While that’s likely true, on paper assets for very rich people equal out to cash whenever they feel like because instead of cashing out paper assets, you just borrow against them.
Unless he’s already borrowed against them, which is seeming more and more likely.
Yeah that’s where the whole house of cards comes crumbling down hopefully.
As long as I’ve known about this guy I think I’ve known that he’s all about being over leveraged. He’s like the poster child for debt. He used to take bigly advantage of debt in his many bankrupcies too.
I have sometimes even thought that maybe he had the Fed lower rates in December 2019 / January 2020 just so he could take out more loans at lower rates.
The Fed isn’t controlled by the US government, and the president doesn’t set interest rates.
Sure, Trump definitely didn’t run a continual pressure campaign to get rate cuts in late 2019 that ultimately resulted in the Fed cutting rates two months from a worldwide economic crisis. They would’ve just done so of their own free accord as an absolutely independent body that aren’t at all indebted to the people who appoint them and keep them in their seats:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1VB1I1/
Fucking /s
Edit: Of course there are conventions of deference and independence, but those are conventions (a.k.a. things that a blowhard, wanton dictator in the office doesn’t actually give half a shit about).