Donald J. Trump’s lawyers said in a court filing that he faces “insurmountable difficulties” as he tries to raise cash for the civil fraud penalty he faces in New York.
I mean you can be as cynical as you like, but before now, Trump did not have a court appointed (the judge in this case) monitor reviewing his financial transactions.
Its one thing to do money laundering and get away with it. Its another thing to effectively having been caught for money laundering, to do so under the observation of someone assigned to monitor you because you got caught. Trumps ability to do shady shit to get this bond is severely curtailed; its just a fact. If anything, the deeply cynical would recognize that if this weren’t the case, he’d have already done some extremely shady shit like selling off the Statue of Liberty to make bond.
That’s a fair point, although I do wonder whether state actors – ie. Russia – could have ways of getting around that. It’s not like the transaction has to be directly to Trump, but to some front organization and of course laundered in some way
Like I said, if he could get away with a shady deal here, he would. If you gonna pick cynicism as a worldview, gotta commit fully. I think there is nothing he wouldn’t do if he thought it was even possible for him to get away with it. The fact he hasn’t already dome something like that tells me he knows its not possible.
I mean you can be as cynical as you like, but before now, Trump did not have a court appointed (the judge in this case) monitor reviewing his financial transactions.
Its one thing to do money laundering and get away with it. Its another thing to effectively having been caught for money laundering, to do so under the observation of someone assigned to monitor you because you got caught. Trumps ability to do shady shit to get this bond is severely curtailed; its just a fact. If anything, the deeply cynical would recognize that if this weren’t the case, he’d have already done some extremely shady shit like selling off the Statue of Liberty to make bond.
That’s a fair point, although I do wonder whether state actors – ie. Russia – could have ways of getting around that. It’s not like the transaction has to be directly to Trump, but to some front organization and of course laundered in some way
Like I said, if he could get away with a shady deal here, he would. If you gonna pick cynicism as a worldview, gotta commit fully. I think there is nothing he wouldn’t do if he thought it was even possible for him to get away with it. The fact he hasn’t already dome something like that tells me he knows its not possible.