The former president, who is appealing the judgment in his civil fraud case, asked an appeals court to let him avoid paying the full amount in the meantime.

It’s pretty clear he doesn’t have the cash to pay the judgement in full, and will need to sell illiquid assets at a discount in order to pay the full amount.

  • BakerBagel@midwest.social
    29·
    9 months ago

    Literally all he had to do was start selling red MAGA masks. Instead he encouraged millions of his supporters to avoid quarantine, dont wear masks, and take homey cures and it cost him the election. Wonder how many of the hundred thousand plus COVID deaths in Georgia were Trump supporters?

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
          6·
          9 months ago

          If I had an interview with Trump, I wouldn’t go after his big lies. I’d keep hammering away at all the little ones.

          “Who is John Barron?”

          “Who were the detectives you sent to Hawaii to investigate Obama’s birth certificate.”

          “Why did you say you had walked in on the Miss Teen USA contestants?”

          This are three that instantly come to mind, but I’m sure I could find hundreds more

          • PrincessLeiasCat
            7·
            9 months ago

            I feel like anytime he’s face with facts, he changes the subject and starts rambling again. Sea lioning Gish Gallop I believe it’s called. Multiple reporters have tried to do what you suggest, but mostly it’s futile. His brain only knows how to construct incoherent rambling and insults.

            One Axios reporter did do a good job once though iirc.

            Edit: Gish Gallop is the term I was looking for, as gracefully pointed out below! Thank you!

            • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
              3·
              9 months ago

              Isn’t it wonderful we live in a world with so many differnet words for lying about politics?

              [sarcasm]

              • PrincessLeiasCat
                3·
                9 months ago

                Thank you. As often as I hear these terms, I still confuse which one is called what.

                  • PrincessLeiasCat
                    1·
                    9 months ago

                    Do you have a good way to keep these rhetorical techniques and/or logical fallacies straight? I often find myself in situations where I can describe them but not be able to connect each one’s proper name, even though I’ve tried to commit them to memory. It’s very frustrating and embarrassing.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
      8·
      9 months ago

      He’s way too stupid to see beyond a day or two in the future, so when covid hit cities and he realized dem voters were dying he came out against any protective measures. He couldn’t understand that it would eventually mean more of his cultists would die off.