“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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He is a security threat first and foremost with his previous debt he should never had had a security clearance. His outside connections make him the exact person people with clearances are trained to spot and bring up.

It would be very interesting if a president was actually denied a security clearance

The president doesn't actually hold a security clearance. Kushner was almost denied if I remember right, and definitely should have been.

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