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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”.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
He wants other people to pay instead.
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.
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).
Seize that fucker and turn it into low-income housing.
Or…
(I enjoy posting that image almost as much as I enjoy posting Riker.)
Lol I love this image too. Soon. Soon.
Both are great.
With a Planned Parenthood and an all-you-can-eat salad bar and a gym and a school on the ground floors.
Don’t forget a gay bar.
And a courthouse.
and name it obama tower
They like dog whistles on the other side. Locate a office of the Bureau of Land Management there.
Rename the building to: BLM Tower
I like the cut of your jib.
I think there‘s no need to be so blunt. Just rename it for what it is: Office Building of Awful Modern Architecture (O.B.A.M.A.).
I think ANTIFA Tower has a nicer ring to it.
Combine DEA and ATF to form the Alcohol, Narcotics, Tobacco, Incendiaries and Firearms Authority.
Put it there.
💡
The Barack Obama Center for Diversity and Inclusion
A few entire floors dedicated to pro bono immigration attorneys.
Put a madrassa in there
Public assistance is just a crutch. It only will drive him to drugs and a life of dependency. He’ll be fine once he gives up all that Starbucks and avocado toast.
Fuck, I love this idea so much. Maybe a health clinic on the ground floor too.
The ground floor mostly a Walgreens and the lobby, I lived a few blocks from it at 71 Broadway.
House the migrants that the republic governors keep trafficking to NYC.
Turn his apartment into a museum open to the public.
I think a public restroom would be more appropriate. With a picture of his face in each urinal. Though he’d probably enjoy that.
God, I love this image.
Haha! Stupid tardigrade is bowing the strings under the bridge. What a loser.
What is the meme?
Worlds smallest violin but extra extra small
That is commonly known as a water bear. They are technically immortal and super super tiny. They are about this big: |—| (not to scale)
That is fantastic.
They don’t want your dumb buildings man, they just want their money.
So say the people of the state of New York!
So say we all!
I just want to see Trump and fam in cardboard boxes
Suffer, you sack of orange shit
Can’t wait to see what goes up in place of Trump Tower. It’s like the circle of life, Trump devours a New York landmark for his building and now the gawdy tower can be repurposed or rebuilt into something better for New York.
I’m hoping for a Spirit Halloween by October
I thought it was gonna be the Barack and Michelle Obama Immigrant Refuge? That’s a good use for it.
That’s the timeline I want to be in!
Ok, but to be fair that landmark looks like a concrete brick.
As opposed to a concrete brick with gold lettering.
I hope they use Trump Tower to house the homeless immigrants being shipped in from Texas.
That would be amazing… Too bad it would become a massive target for MAGA people and it would only be a matter of time before it was attacked
That’s actually a good point, whoever buys it must be aware that it comes with inherent risk just to own after this. Best to bulldoze it.
That’s why it will be auctioned off and sell for a small fraction of its value if it were any other tower.
They’ll feel right at home with the famous Trump taco bowl.
We’ve gone from Charleton Heston talking about guns, “From my cold dead hands!” to DJ Trump saying, “KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!” as if they were some sort of American national monument and not the sleezy shithole that it is.
He should just ask Trump for money, I heard he’s loaded.
Oh.
Guess we shall now see if human stupidity really is infinite…
Maybe we should stop calling it taxes and just start a GoFundMe for universal health care, it seems to be more effective lol
“there’s only two things guaranteed in life, death and GoFundMes”
Well that might take a while longer than he has lol
Edit: 21:00 CET, so over 24h later… well that’s not going well, isn’t it :-D
This is the first time I wish I could donate against something. Like, pay them $100 so they subtract $50 from the collected donations :)
I am impressed it’s that high. ~60$ per donor. Will be funny when none of it gets to trump and whoever set this up spends it all.
Please tell me that some random jerk set that up and is pocketing all of the proceeds.
I didnt check if its only funded if the target is reached or whether its all cash taken at donation. Its very likely the latter because the grift aint gonna grift itself!
God why didn’t I think of that…
Probably shouldn’t have committed all that fraud then.
Maybe he needs a gofundme, just like regular Americans who can’t afford stuff like health care or unexpected funeral costs. See? He’s just like us.
His begging for money from supporters IS his GoFundMe.
Now, more than ever, it’s time for business owners and entrepreneurs to unite, to show our collective strength and resolve. Let’s stand with Trump to ensure that justice prevails and that we continue to fight for a country that respects freedom, honors courage, and rewards the unwavering spirit of its people.
Lmao
What are the odds this will raise enough money?
I’m banking on it being a grift so it will raise a lot of funds for the person who set it up!
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Mr Trump’s lawyers notified an appeals court earlier this week that their client has failed to raise the capital to cover the bond, saying finding a surety company to help them was proving a “practical impossibility”.
The former president has approached “about 30 surety companies through four separate brokers”, his attorneys said, but had so far come back empty-handed in the face of “insurmountable difficulties”.
“Critical among these challenges is not just the inability and reluctance of the vast majority of sureties to underwrite a bond for this unprecedented sum, but, even more significantly, the unwillingness of every surety bond provider approached by defendants to accept real estate as collateral,” his attorneys wrote.Wait, so you’re telling me that all those surety companies aren’t willing to loan money to a known grifter who is famous for not paying back his loans? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
Ok, not that shocked.You left out “who is known to grossly overvalue the properties he’s trying to use as collateral?”
Maga people will be stupid enough to bail him out… Just watch
They will try, but i doubt they can afford $464m.
They don’t ALL need two kidneys!
Isnt like 30-40% of america MAGA?(complete guess i dont really kniw american politics) If you take 30% that means its ~100mil MAGAs. So every one of them pays 5 bucks then they bail him out.
No, 30-40% of voters. Big difference.
Voters is like 40-50%, they’d need to shill out 10 bucks instead.
Then again, voting is one thing, sending money is another. I’d guess less than 10% would be doing that
Yeah, I’m pretty sure most of the money Trump fundraised was from “new converts” of people that never voted until Trump entered politics. And those people are probably tapped out now or disillusioned
The Republican party has long been funded by big donors for so long that the individual member has a deep distrust in individual donations. At the very least, I know my parents are in that boat: they think it’s a scam.
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Your math works out to about 400 Billion, not 400 million.
I’m a fucking idiot
Isnt like 30-40% of america MAGA?(complete guess i dont really kniw american politics)
It’s hard to tell how many there really are, because they are disproportionately noisy.
Plus, he’s been pumping them for so long, there may not be much left in that well.
Paying for other is communism, you know. They can’t do that.
Giving any money to poors is communism. Giving government handouts to the wealthy is good and just.
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If they do at least that’s half a billion less they can donate into PACs and such.
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!”
Your mugshots say otherwise.
