“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.”
more of a national security risk. Right, he’s already selling secrets.
this is past tense, isn't it? like, he doesn't ave more secrets to sell, and he's sold the ones he already had....
Unless he ends up in the white house again...then plenty more secrets to sell!
I can't believe that's actually a possibility....
me neither. I really want to wake up and find out the last 8 years have been one long, fucked up dream.
As the GOP nominee he will begin to receive some intelligence briefings even before the elections, as early as July. It was recently reported that the White House, caught in a "damned if you damned if you don't scenario" that is synonymous with Trump, sided to go with tradition & allow Trump access to these, even while he fights a classified documents mishandling case in court. This wouldn't make any sense in a Jack Ryan novel & yet ...
When I got my security clearance, one of the things they drove home was reporting people who were having money problems because, as this points out, having money problems makes you prone to being bribed, and thus a threat.
I don't think it should negate you from running for high office but it should make people consider who they vote for.
So that’s an interesting question there. An elected official gets to see top secret information that anyone else would have to go through a stringent check on. Why shouldn’t the elected official be held to the same standard as they will be accessing the same information? Why does being elected override that?
Well, in my opinion, I'd rather have a homeless person as president than a rich bastard. I don't think wealth should influence electability, but it does anyway. There should be plenty of checks in place though, just not requiring wealth.
I mean I agree.
I also think that we could do away with primaries and parties together, then put together a list of qualifications for all the available elected positions; each voter is required to when registering to list their qualifications; then at random we select a pool of potential applicants for a given campaign cycle. We then vote on the candidates and decide. Public office shouldn't be a career, it should be a civic obligation like jury duty. Unless you have a valid reason to not hold office, welp, if your number comes up..
I’d buy a lottery ticket for the chance to become president for a term.
I mainly just don't think that the majority of leaders are remotely qualified, nor do I think a career of seeking power qualifies you to wield it.
I'd rather you were President (so long as you meet some minimum qualifications).
My penis is 37.5mm long.
It that long enough?
I mean its not the qualification I would lead with, its fine.
Presidents can have a little penis, as a treat.
Ideally, yes. But this guy can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and not lose any voters.
Lmao, as if there was ever a legitimate and legal way for him to get this money. "What if I sell secrets to somebody rich" was his default strategy before he even entered the white house. This doesn't make him any more of a security risk because he's already maxed out that metric many times over.
And yet nothing happens becuz he's running fah office
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.
And yet, here we are.
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.
I wonder what would happen if Putin straight up offered to cover his debts? I expect Trump would actually accept that offer and his idiot base would see nothing wrong with it if he did.
Putin cares more for America than the Democrats do!
By the way he's throwing away the lives of Russian citizens, I'm sure he cares about doing the right thing. Yeah...
Damn looks like people are missing the sarcasm with this one.
With the level of loony of of MAGA, yeah, that's exactly what someone in his camp would say.
Yea the red hats certainly did a fine job murdering satire.
I love how that cut so bone-deep you got downvotes for it.
I downvoted it because it was dumb as fuck.
Which is exactly why we should drop all the lawsuits against him and proactively bribe him with patriot-money! /s
The s stands for both sarcasm and sadness...
Wow, guess the Saudis overpaid with that $1billion, they must be kicking themselves
He already spent it. Probably on gold plating his own turds.
Honestly, I kinda want Putin to personally secure it for him. It would be a test of the system. It would let us know what needs to be done.
Are we sure that Putin is good for it?
Well he could fly over here and deliver it on person. Hopefully that route passes over Ukraine.
Even if not, US is obligated to get him to the court. I imagine the hearings would last months, maybe years. But he can grab the bird by it's tail and become, param-pam-pam!, a prison reviewer!
Blyat!
Jail it is then.
The thumbnail looks like he just barfed on the back windshield of the car
risk? He was already working with Russia to subvert the 2016 election. He was bought a long time ago and has been transparently working for Russian interests since.
i think Honky McHonkface is ready to take that risk