Donald Trump has no idea how to post bond in the fraud trial—and he’s absolutely losing it.

In just shy of a week, Donald Trump’s $454 million judgment from his New York bank fraud trial will become collectible, either by way of liquid cash or financial assets—and it has officially sent Trump into meltdown mode.

The notoriously sleep-deprived GOP presidential nominee spent the better part of Monday night shouting into the void about the massive, half-billion-dollar judgment and his apparent inability to pay it off, bemoaning being required to follow the law before being allowed to appeal the case.

“I would be forced to mortgage or sell Great Assets, perhaps at Fire Sale prices, and if and when I win the Appeal, they would be gone. Does that make sense? WITCH HUNT. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” Trump posted Tuesday morning.

“I shouldn’t have to put up any money, being forced by the Corrupt Judge and AG, until the end of the appeal. That’s the way system works!” he added, forgetting that he’s being held to the same standards as every private citizen.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    Poor guy, I feel really bad for him. Sure hope nothing else happens to ruin him. It’d be really bad if he was forced to go to jail too. On the bright side, at least he’d match the jumpsuit. Maybe he could write a script about his poor, difficult life and call it “The Color Orange.”

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      The last time a guy wrote about his “life’s struggles” in jail, not long after a failed coup, things didn’t turn out so good for us. Lets not give this magalomaniac any more ideas or access to writing materials if he ever sees the inside of a jail cell.

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      If the script includes how he gets discriminated against unfairly he could steal the name Orange is the new Black

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      I’m sure people have been making “orange is the new black” jokes for a while now.

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    He should borrow vast amounts of money from his loyal supporters: “Empty your lifetime savings accounts, I promise I’ll pay everything back with interests!”.

    Then we’ll see how much his followers really trust him when they need to put their own future on the line…

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      I’m not sure if this a joke or not but he has already been doing literally exactly that for like, the last 7 or 8 years.

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    I’m a little worried this is going to galvanize his base, but it is still deeply satisfying to watch his life collapse around him, especially knowing that the criminal trials haven’t even started yet.

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      We have to get beyond the fear of pissing off his base. The sooner we do it the better. This shit head should have been held accountable years ago, but we were worried about his base, now look at the mess. It will only get worse. Its time to get to work.

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        Yeah, I didn’t say don’t prosecute him, I said I was a little worried it might galvanize his base. It also might go the other way; it makes him look weak, and authoritarian strongmen can never look weak, plus it really dispels the myth of his vast wealth. But either way, pointing out this may be beneficial to Trump’s campaign doesn’t mean I said the civil/criminal trials against him should be dropped.

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      It should and this whole situation should make you mad too if you were objectively looking at what is happening. You guys are fucking all of us.

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      We’re not gonna see the criminal trials before the election.

      Now if he doesn’t win, oh baby it’s gonna be juci

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      I’d rather he had a Game of Thrones-esque ending before that eventuality happened. He should watch everything he ever got in life get torn from him bit by bit first, before having some totally mediocre ending on a toilet seat shitting himself.

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        That is how I felt about the game of thrones ending, I loved that show and the books and the I watched it all get torn away by the writers in the last season and felt like I died alone shitting on a toilet. You’re right, that would be worse.

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      No, that would be letting him off the hook too easy. i wish he had to answer for his crimes and die at age 105 in jail with not a single dime to his name, with mandatory daily therapy sessions so he can start recognizing the damage he’s done and feel remorse.

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        With the threat he poses, I’m fine with that. Pay him millions to go to Russia if it means he drops off the face of the Earth with regards to socials and politics.

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        More importantly, it let’s other people like him get off easy if he isn’t convicted to set a precedent. I don’t care if he lives or dies. I care about the rest of those snakes.

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    Of course he cries election interference, but just a reminder that Donald Trump could have taken a few years off of campaigning to spend time to properly defend himself in court and then run again when it was over. That was always allowed. But we all know why he insists on running right now despite the mountain of felony indictments against him. He knows he is going to lose every court case because he’s guilty as fuck and wants to use the office of president to wash away these crimes he committed with a self-pardon.

    The very fact that he can’t post bond is proof that he is at the end of his rope. Time to pay back all the money you defrauded the people of New York, Crooked Don.

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    It’s a good news, bad news situation.

    Good news. Trump completely loses his mind, is so stark raving bonkers that he is found unable to stand trial due to mental incompetence.

    Bad news. GOP runs him anyway because he hasn’t been convicted of anything

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      There is no trial. The trial already happened, and he was found to have committed massive fraud. Perhaps the most beautiful perfect fraud people have ever seen. Many are talking about it.

      Anyhow fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

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        He has plenty of other trials going on, including the one in Georgia and the Federal one.

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      Best news: I was afraid the GOP would bail him out and he’d suffer no personal consequences… it looks like the conservative billionaires told him to get fucked.

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          There’s a guest appearance by John Barron.

          I don’t know if he actually did, but I always get a kick out of the idea that he dug out that old alias he had to burn in order to name another kid after himself since Don Jr was already taken. Wouldn’t surprise me if someone did some digging and found someone named Eric that was mysteriously defending him at some point as an unsurfaced alias

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            I remember a picture of Barron and the family when the boy was about five. They in Trump’s gold plated penthouse and the child is in a business suit, sitting in a tiny limo. No jet planes or spaceships for Barron!

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    OMFG. YOU are being manipulated by headline and BS journalism. This is absolutely PATHETIC. Why? Is America only concerned with money as the money Trump owes is the LEAST of our concerns with him.

    WTF is going on? I know. The masses buy this shit. Fools.

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    When Trump gets really desperate he usually commits a bunch of crimes. I wonder what’s going to happen in the next week, and what we’ll hear about a couple months from now, and how the trial will go in 2032.