"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.”

  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
    251·
    8 months ago

    Honestly, I kinda want Putin to personally secure it for him. It would be a test of the system. It would let us know what needs to be done.

      • Zippy@lemmy.world
        81·
        8 months ago

        Well he could fly over here and deliver it on person. Hopefully that route passes over Ukraine.

        • andrew_bidlaw
          4·
          8 months ago

          Even if not, US is obligated to get him to the court. I imagine the hearings would last months, maybe years. But he can grab the bird by it’s tail and become, param-pam-pam!, a prison reviewer!

          This Supermax prison, khe-khe, is nothing like our Polar Wolf or Black Dolphin. Like, nothing at all. I’m collected in a clean environment, three foods per day, no torture. They feel like that’s how you treat your most dangerous bastards? Most of my countrymen strive to live like this, honestly.

      • Patches
        3·
        8 months ago

        It’s just imaginary numbers in a computer Michael. How hard could it be?