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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

"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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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 150 points 9 months ago

more of a national security risk. Right, he’s already selling secrets.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

Gotta hush all those girls he pees on in Russian hotels.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

Nah mate, he paid them to pee on a bed where Obama's family once slept.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

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....

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Unless he ends up in the white house again...then plenty more secrets to sell!

I can't believe that's actually a possibility....

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] demosthememes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

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 ...

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