Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I am delighted to see that Trump shoved off part of the responsibility onto the failson.

Meantime, not unrelatedly I am sure:

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has begun to see warning signs that the small-dollar donors who fueled his last run for the White House have slowed their support to the former president this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

Since late last year, members of Trump’s team have been warned by Republican Party advisors that their small-dollar donor base could be shrinking, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters.

Some have even been told there may not be much that the former president or his campaign can do to win back these key donors, the sources explained.

clap harder or tinkerbell gets it you sobs

there may not be much that the former president or his campaign can do to win back these key donors

Public executions

Well he killed a large number of them

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-allies-election-defamation-case-leak-dominion-emails/index.html

Lambert attended a hearing Monday in Byrne’s defamation case in Washington, DC, but was never seen leaving the courtroom, and questions swirled among the other attorneys about whether she had been taken into custody.

The judge told Lambert to stay behind as the hearing wrapped up. The other attorneys left the courtroom, and two federal marshals then went inside and locked the doors. Lambert was never seen exiting the courtroom. The marshals declined to say whether they arrested her, and she didn’t answer messages seeking comment after the hearing.

“The U.S. Marshals Service can confirm the arrest of Stefanie Lambert earlier this afternoon. Lambert is currently being held on local charges,” the statement said, referring to her Michigan-based criminal case.

i wondered why dominion hasn't gone after trump and i guessed that it would probably just be a supreme court headache to go after a president and then i found this which was interesting. most of these people asked think dominion would have a strong case. and i definitely think we need one more long and protracted court case against trump.

https://www.justsecurity.org/82447/8-top-experts-on-strength-of-a-dominion-defamation-case-against-donald-trump/

Nothing to do with what is currently going on with Trump, but I disliked him randomly showing up in an article I was reading which seemingly should have had nothing to do with him:

Trump has directly supported the use of asbestos, writing in his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback that it is "100% safe, once applied." He blamed the mob for efforts to discontinue its use: "I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal." In 2018, a Russian asbestos company began marketing the carcinogenic mineral with Trump's image and a seal reading "Approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States." Russia has been a primary supplier of asbestos to the US.

Trump is once again running for president and could move to undo the ban if he wins in November. That is one of the reasons some are calling on Congress to pass a law to ban all types of asbestos outright, The New York Times reported. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said the EPA's move today is "a long overdue step forward for public health. However, it cannot be the end of the road when it comes to phasing out other dangerous asbestos fibers, and Congress has a role to play here when it comes to providing stronger protections for our health."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/epa-finally-bans-the-last-type-of-asbestos-used-in-us/

Trump should start incorporating asbestos into his makeup foundation, to make himself fireproof.

Really, though, that's like a perfect Trump bingo. It involves dangerous science denial, financial self-interest, accusing someone else of your own criminality, and Russia.

"100% safe, once applied."

lol, incredible.

someone might have once told Malcolm McLaren this, without adding the important bit about not smashing holes into it with a hammer

make asbestos great again

Roffle

https://newrepublic.com/post/179928/alina-habba-trump-bedminister-hush-money-lawsuit-settlement

I'm leaning dud.

these people...

Just another "Trump bites lawyer" story!

The settlement contract included a bizarre and hugely significant line that stated both “parties agree that Alina Habba is not a party to this release,” The Daily Beast reported Tuesday.

I'm not even waiting for him to suffer real legal consequences at this point, I'm waiting for every lawyer and financial advisor and vendor he's ever stiffed to all get together and Ides of March his ass.

"Et tu, Rudy?"

That lawyer might be getting disbarred. You can't do that shit.

That lawyer might be getting disbarred. You can't do that shit.

Ok I read the whole article and now see who you’re talking about. Yeah she seems very very shady.

Alina Habba? Shady?

I strongly suspect that it's occurred to him that she's kinda heavily responsible for all the money issues lately given the excellence of her work on said two cases he's coughing up for.

Just another "Trump bites lawyer" story!

‘they knew what they signed up for’

is the story that he can't pay the full $454 mill or that he can't even secure a bond? like I wouldn't expect him to have that much cash on band, but if he can't secure a bond...he should only need like $15 mil for that, if he ain't got that then lol

aiui, one difficulty in Trump's securing a bond is the perception that his appeal is very likely to fail, mainly because the evidence of fraud is incontrovertible and the judge handled the case so as not to give any technical or procedural grounds for dismissal, to say nothing of Trump's lifelong propensity to stiff anybody he can by any means available, because he's as crooked as a dog's hind leg.

xp aiui it's not the cost of the bond that's the issue but that no one will accept his collateral. it's to be seen whether or not he can pay the full amount.

Worth noting that, as yet, the NYAG have yet to file anything in response. I suspect they will, but I half wonder if a clock is being run out just a little bit more.

Wonder if it might also be harder to bond it than a regular civil judgment, as a fraud judgment is not dischargeable in bankruptcy, where a regular civil judgment might be.

https://www.pbwt.com/bankruptcy-update-blog/supreme-court-holds-that-fraud-exception-to-debt-discharge-can-include-fraud-by-someone-other-than-the-debtor#:~:text=Section%20523%20of%20the%20Bankruptcy,a)(2)(A).

is the story that he can't pay the full $454 mill or that he can't even secure a bond?

Both, but especially the latter. No one will lend him the money. And as I understand it, barring a stay from some appeals court, the NY Attorney General's office can start seizing assets on March 25.

A process which isn’t automatic — it’s not like she’ll get everything like that — but still, not great for him!

I believe visiting is right re: the issue with the bond is the collateral. Trump doesn't have access to normal lending and the lending/bonding he does have access to will want assets equal to the full value of the bond, not some portion of the bond. Some of these limited sources will accept real estate as collateral, which is Trump's significant assets, but it is complicated, apparently.

*only* significant

I can't imagine it happening, but if the seizing started they should start with Mar a Lago and send his whole life into disarray.

I'm imagining Trump refusing to turn over the keys to Mar a Lago, hiding them behind his back, running around the grounds being chased by the deputies come to execute, while the Benny Hill song plays.

I’m imagining him getting taken down like Scarface, except his “little friend” is just Giuliani.

doesn't florida have special *not my mansion you don't* laws? i thought that was why all those assholes lived down there.

Waco style stand off or gtf.

I'm imagining Trump refusing to turn over the keys to Mar a Lago, hiding them behind his back, running motoring his Rascal around the grounds being chased by the deputies come to execute, while the Benny Hill song plays.

lol PBKR

The thing is, we all can imagine this scene so easily

Tossing the keys to a Secret Service guy, who tosses them to another Secret Service guy, etc

doesn't florida have special *not my mansion you don't* laws?

Art. X, Section 4 of the Florida Constitution exempts every state resident's homestead from "forced sale under process of any court, and no judgment, decree or execution shall be a lien thereon."

But of course there is the question of whether it even is, legally, his residence, which it probably isn't, because there is nothing about this asshole that is ever cut and dry, legally. He's probably a legal resident of Curacao or some shit.

Maybe our Floridians can provide insight but it looks houses can be foreclosed on and sold by the mortgagers. Florida was one of the worst places hit in the foreclosure crisis.

Mar a Lago is deed restricted and cannot be anyone's residence, ever. So that would not protect it. Trump is only allowed to live there as an employee of the club.

“Who Will Buy My Memories?” (Mar A Lago remix featuring Pit Bull).

The January 6 Hostage Choir- "I Ain't Got No Home in This World"

Haha this is pretty obviously the guy himself calling into the NY Post and trying to spin this.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/business/donald-trump-may-not-pay-bond-and-instead-let-letitia-james-seize-trump-tower-insiders/

xpost

Donald Trump may not pay bond — and instead let Letitia James seize Trump Tower: insiders

As Donald Trump faces a Monday deadline to post a $454 million bond in the civil fraud case against him in New York, insiders said he may be weighing a little-discussed option: Doing nothing.

The ex-president reportedly has been struggling to raise the cash for the bond — either from banks or wealthy friends — with his lawyers claiming on Monday that it was a “practical impossibility.”

While some reports have raised speculation that Trump may “go nuclear” with a Chapter 11 filing to protect his prize real estate assets across Manhattan, experts said bankruptcy would create unwelcome complications as the 2024 election season comes to a head.

“He’s been there and done that,” one insider close to Trump said, dismissing the prospect of a Chapter 11 filing.

A third possibility, however, is to let the deadline pass, leaving it to New York Attorney General Letitia James to seize Trump’s bank accounts or buildings — including Trump Tower, from which he declared his 2016 presidential run, and which famously includes his personal penthouse.

It’s an option Trump appears to have considered – partly because he believes the chances are good that he could recover the assets on appeal, even if he is forced to take his case to the US Supreme Court, according to friends.

“Even if there is a taking, it doesn’t mean he can’t take it back later,” a source close to Trump told The Post.

A decision to do nothing poses risks of its own — among them that the New York AG’s Office has the right to sell off any properties it confiscates in order to recover the cash penalties it is owed.

“They are going after the money and that’s all he has a right to get back, not the buildings — unless the judgment is reversed before they are sold,” said Adam Leitman Bailey, a New York-based attorney who’s focused on the commercial real estate sector.

Sources friendly with Trump say the ex-president believes he has a strong case. Among other considerations, if the decision is not overturned, “it will have a chilling effect on people who do business in New York because it could happen to anyone,” according to one insider.

“There will be severe consequences — not an insurrection. People will stop doing business in New York. No one will take the risk, and lenders are now spooked. The real estate market is already a disaster, with office buildings worth a fraction of what they were once worth, and there are metastasizing effects when a large part of the city’s budget is from real estate.”

One source close to Trump insisted that he could raise funds from wealthy “friends and supporters,” but so far has not chosen this path.

I think he should definitely test these theories

Yeah, not surprised that he's thinking that he can just bank on the Supreme Court he handpicked to bail him out.