"Any foreign adversary seeking to buy a President knows the price," warns Rep. Sean Casten.
"Any foreign adversary seeking to buy a President knows the price," warns Rep. Sean Casten
A Democrat who sits on the House Financial Services Committee warned that former President Donald Trump’s inability to secure a bond for his $464 million fraud judgment makes him a “massive national security risk.”
Trump’s lawyers in a filing on Monday told a New York appeals court that he cannot secure a bond after approaching 30 underwriters.
“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” the attorneys wrote.
The filing quoted an insurance broker who signed an affidavit stating that securing the bond is a “practical impossibility.”
When I got my security clearance, one of the things they drove home was reporting people who were having money problems because, as this points out, having money problems makes you prone to being bribed, and thus a threat.
So that’s an interesting question there. An elected official gets to see top secret information that anyone else would have to go through a stringent check on. Why shouldn’t the elected official be held to the same standard as they will be accessing the same information? Why does being elected override that?
Lmao, as if there was ever a legitimate and legal way for him to get this money. "What if I sell secrets to somebody rich" was his default strategy before he even entered the white house. This doesn't make him any more of a security risk because he's already maxed out that metric many times over.
He is a security threat first and foremost with his previous debt he should never had had a security clearance. His outside connections make him the exact person people with clearances are trained to spot and bring up.
I wonder what would happen if Putin straight up offered to cover his debts? I expect Trump would actually accept that offer and his idiot base would see nothing wrong with it if he did.
risk? He was already working with Russia to subvert the 2016 election. He was bought a long time ago and has been transparently working for Russian interests since.
OMFG. YOU are being manipulated by headline and BS journalism. This is absolutely PATHETIC. Why? Is America only concerned with money as the money Trump owes is the LEAST of our concerns.
WTF is going on? I know. The masses buy this shit up. Fools.
What’s the most common reason applicants for a security clearance are denied? Botched finances, the same one that causes those with clearances to lose them.
The reason is self-evident: Military personnel in deep debt are considered more open to bribes or accepting money in exchange for revealing secrets