Donald Trump is close to the deadline to post bond in his fraud trialā€”and heā€™s screwing himself over even more.

After having reached out to several guarantors and 30 suretors for help posting his $464 million New York bank fraud bond, Donald Trump suddenly wants everyone to know he actually does have the cash.

In a bizarre rant on Friday morning, the man who was found to have defrauded banks and investors by overvaluing himself and the value of his properties claimed that he had accrued the wealth by way of ā€œHARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK.ā€

Trump also admitted he has nearly half a billion dollars in cash.

The confession directly contradicts a filing from his legal team last month arguing that it would be ā€œimpossibleā€ to secure a bond covering the full amount of the multimillion-dollar ruling.

Trumpā€™s words will surely help out New York Attorney General Letitia James, who on WednesdayĀ urgedĀ an appeals court to ignore Donald Trumpā€™s latest effort to worm his way out of paying the $464 million disgorgement from his bank fraud trial.

  • hannes3120@feddit.de
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    As a German Iā€™m proud of our constitution, too, and I think it does a great job at making it as hard as possible for something like the Nazis to easily happen again.

    That doesnā€™t mean that it was perfect all the time and is unchangeable.

    I think itā€™s insane how the US things their constitution is the pinnacle of democracy - especially since it was the first one and others iterated on our

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      I think it is closely tied to the American exceptionalism programmed into many people like itā€™s a law of nature.

      Like literally, in their heads, itā€™s that we are Godā€™s chosen country, and I guess thatā€™s makes our founding documents infallible.

      • said by somebody who just drove back home after being out in rural America where houses have signs with trumpā€™s face and ā€œmiss me yet?ā€ Then down the road another house has ā€œFUCK BIDENā€ on a flag. I couldnā€™t tell today, but they may have tastefully modified it to say ā€œFU BIDEN.ā€

      šŸ˜† ā€¦ ā˜¹ļø ā€¦ šŸ¤Æ

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        Itā€™s a religion.

        A weird civic religion like nothing that came before it.

        The founding fathers are thir prophets, constitution is their holy scripture, the flag their holy icon and the anthem their hymn.

        You donā€™t just change scripture :coughamendmentscough:, you donā€™t even read it - you get a priest to interpret it and tell you what it means in this context. You take it on faith that the things in it are infallible and eternal, even though you donā€™t understand them or know what they are.

        Look at it through the lens of civic-relgious fundamentalism, and most of America makes a horrible kind of sense.