“Desperate” Trump’s inability to get fraud bond makes him “massive national security risk,” Dem says

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“Desperate” Trump’s inability to get fraud bond makes him “massive national security risk,” Dem says
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"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.”

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What’s the most common reason applicants for a security clearance are denied? Botched finances, the same one that causes those with clearances to lose them.

The reason is self-evident: Military personnel in deep debt are considered more open to bribes or accepting money in exchange for revealing secrets

Really not hard to put 2 and 2 together

https://www.debt.org/veterans/military-security-clearances/#:~:text=What's%20the%20most%20common%20reason,in%20exchange%20for%20revealing%20secrets.

Sure that is a vector, but so is sex and many other things that people can get trapped in. Shame is the most powerful manipulation emotion.

Sure, disease can spread from spitting in someone's mouth, but there are other ways too so spitting directly in someone's mouth just isn't a big deal!