Donald Trump has so far been unable to obtain a bond that would allow him to appeal a $454 million judgment against him in a New York civil fraud case without posting the full amount himself, his lawyers said on Monday.
It's not all tied up in real estate. Recall he has a lot of the equity in Truth Social, which he is trying to sell at an inflated price to DWAC. He is just as much of an internet influencer these days as a real estate investor.
But I think it is telling that a key point of the trial was that he overinflated the value of his assets, and now that he has to put up cash, all of a sudden we find that he can't put up enough collateral, because banks are no longer taking his word on those valuations.
What's really unfortunate for him is that he claimed in depositions that he had $400 million cash on hand. So either he does have the cash or he committed perjury.
If it was a real substance in real estate, it should be easy to borrow the money he needs. So either his real estate is already mortgaged to the hilt, so he can't add anymore on top, or they simply don't trust the evaluations any more.
I really hope they start selling off Trumps stuff starting next week. In a fire sale, cents for the dollar.
So where's that $400 million in cash you claimed to have in a deposition, under oath? Not willing to put up your own cash or did someone committ a little extra perjury?
That's literally what happened. A book was published in which white house officials shared stories which questioned his mental fitness. The stable genius thing was from a series of tweets he sent attacking the book.
“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” the President continued. “Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star … to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius … and a very stable genius at that!”
I don't think anyone has ever said they were stable without being called unstable multiple times...
Like, especially next to genius, no one brags about being stable except people who aren't. It's just not something stable people mention.
Like if you meet someone and they immediately and umpromptly deny that they're on LSD, it's a pretty safe bet they're tripping balls. Because why else even bring it up?
But Trump is a BILLIONAIRE? OBVIOUSLY he's CHOOSING not to pay this because he doesn't want to pay the Deep State! I'll support you with more Donations President!
Supposedly a used 757 is worth less than like 15 million... Trump claims his is worth 100 million.s
Somehow I doubt even with all that tack furnishings and piles of cocaine dust in the corners of the carpet, it comes anywhere near that...
Does anyone else have the sneaking feeling Elon is going to show up at some point? He is probably the only person with that much cash on hand who would be willing to lend it to Trump.
If Elon were a natural-born US citizen, I wouldn't put it past Trump to sell him the VP job. He might try anyway. Or make him Secretary of State, or some bullshit like that.
I don’t think Elon has that much liquid. He’d have to sell off a lot of shares of one of his companies, and that would probably disaffect the stock. I wouldn’t put it past him to do that though.
if Elon sells stock, so his influence on the company via votes significantly decreases, the stock will go up, because having a manchild in charge is a deterrent to investors.
If Elon had an actual liquidity crisis where he had to bring a meaningful fraction of his assets to bear in terms of real monetary value, he’d probably lose control of his publicly traded companies.