If he’s so strong and rich and smart, why can’t he pay? Or get a loan? “Trump has built his entire business career on the premise that laws are merely suggestions. The method has generally succeeded. When the government tried to make him allow Black people to live in his father’s apartment buildings, he defied the law and repeated Justice Department efforts to force compliance. He and his father funneled millions of dollars into his pockets illegally via a tax-fraud scheme of shell companies and phony paperwork. He repeatedly and habitually refuses to pay contractors for services rendered. He boasted that he could buy off public officials, a belief that, correct or not, explained his brazen willingness to cheat and steal. All these methods have worked for him. He was finally caught using double books to report different valuations to lenders and tax officials — probably not Trump’s worst crime, but one that was provable in court.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-fines-broke-court-fraud-rich-republicans-loan.html |
Look, the reality is that I can feel sorry for a Bankman-Fried or an Elizabeth Holmes. At some point they were in over their heads and it snowballed and they are both doing or facing long years in prison. Yet they've shown themselves to be human and remorseful. We can relate, a little bit, to their initial professional ambitions and subsequent downfalls. But Trump? He's a hateful monster who never loved anyone. He spews hate daily on his social media platform. He mocks disabled people, he assaults women, he's boasted of stiffing people who've worked for him, and the IRS, for years. It's always all about him. He cannot stop himself, dogged by dementia and unable to get out of his own resentment and spite. He has no redeeming features. This is why this massive judgment against him, even though it's accurate and commensurate with the sums he lied about and the interest he now owes, doesn't make anyone sympathize with his plight. Morally and ethically, he deserves so much more punishment. I hope he will receive it. |
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His wealth is in real estate, but you knew that. Banks will not give a loan so large using real estate as collateral because real estate is a volatile commodity. This is a ridiculous sum for bond and everyone knows it. We know that Letitia James has one goal - to get Trump. She has said it over and over. Can't wait for this ridiculous judgment to be overturned, because it will be. |
What? He has a ton of properties. Banks “give loans using real estate as collateral” every hour of every day. What is keeping him from multiple smaller cash out refinances or multiple smaller bonds adding up to the total? It doesn’t have to be one huge bond from one lender for the entire amount. The only answer is that everything is already mortgaged up the wazoo, so he’s not that rich, or that he’s lying, so he’s in deep sh!t. |
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/impossible-for-trump-to-post-bond-covering-454-million-trumps-lawyers-say |
That didn’t refute or even address either of my suggestions. Cash out some equity from your multiple properties that are supposedly worth billions and then you have cash or cash equivalents. And seek out multiple smaller bonds from various different bonding companies instead of one for the whole amount. He should be able to accomplish these things. If he doesn’t he’s poor or lying or both. |
He is over leveraged and in some cases, double leveraged, so doesn't have the equity to come close to covering the liability. |
This guy - I had totally forgotten about him! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Donahue_Peebles |