‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’: Trump begs fans to pay his $464m bond
‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’: Trump begs fans to pay his $464m bond
Former president blasts New York Attorney General Letitia James as an ‘insane radical’ in a desperate plea for cash – claiming Democrats are trying to ‘intimidate’ him into abandoning his campaign for the White House
Former president blasts New York Attorney General Letitia James as an ‘insane radical’ in a desperate plea for cash – claiming Democrats are trying to ‘intimidate’ him into abandoning his campaign for the White House
Donald Trump has sent out a panicked fundraising message to his supporters as he begs them to help foot his ballooning legal bills.
The desperate memo, titled “Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!”, comes as the Monday deadline to pay his $464m bond in his New York fraud trial judgement ticks ever closer.
“KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!” the text reads, linking to an accompanying memo that states: “Insane radical Democrat AG Letitia Jameswants to SEIZE my properties in New York. THIS INCLUDES THE ICONIC TRUMP TOWER!”
It continues: “Democrats think this will intimidate me. They think that if they take my cash to stifle my campaign, that I’ll give up! Here’s one thing they don’t know: WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!”
The frantic tone of the plea stands in stark contrast to the statement issued by Trump spokesman Steven Cheung to CNN on Wednesday in which he dismissed the network’s reporting that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was in “panic mode” over the matter as “pure bulls*** and fake news”.
Robert Reich posted this the other day and I can't help but think this is probably more accurate than anyone in the Trump org wants to admit.
Don't fool yourself into thinking Trump has no money. He does have money, he's just lying about the amount.
The answer is probably very simple. He probably has enough assets to pledge them as collateral for a loan, but he doesn't want to. He wants other people to pay instead. That's how he always works and why no one in NYC will do business with him.
The fine becomes payable with interest if you lose the case on appeal, which is nearly inevitable.
So he may be able to post bond by collateralising assets but is he able to pay the fine when he inevitably loses the appeal?
Also bond loans are not free. That's what he's afraid of - singing off a building's ownership to a bond holding company means it's gone.
He'd rather fight the procedural slow-moving government instead of a company whose actual job is relieving people of assets all day long.
The answer is probably very simple. He probably has enough assets to pledge them as collateral for a loan, but he doesn’t want to. He wants other people to pay instead. That’s how he always works and why no one in NYC will do business with him.
Pretty much.. why pay anything at all if you can get somebody else to do it.
He doesn't want to pay for it. He doesn't want to pay the loan fees. The rich have always factually been above the law and in this case there seems to be more than a few people who are willing to go along with just giving the guy stacks of cash. Even if someone offered him the full amount i'm guessing he would keep soliciting for donations for it to see what he could get out of it.
It's business fraud 101 and he's a master of it. He wouldn't be where he was if he was stupid.
He's also trying to sway public opinion to be on his side, it props up his campaign and is on message of being politically persecuted whether or not it's true. It's on message with the republican party's "the democrats are the enemy" unification strategy too. If the judge backs down and asks for less or maybe even nothing at all then suddenly he's off scot free until the appeal is done. Odds are the appeal would not increase the fines either.
He wants other people to pay instead.
His father bought like $3Million in chips from the Trump's Castle Casino in Atlantic City when it started going under. Like, Fred Trump Sr. sent a chauffeur with a briefcase full of cash to buy $3M worth of chips, put them in the briefcase, and leave.
Seize that fucker and turn it into low-income housing.
Or...
(I enjoy posting that image almost as much as I enjoy posting Riker.)
Lol I love this image too. Soon. Soon.
Both are great.
Public assistance is just a crutch. It only will drive him to drugs and a life of dependency. He'll be fine once he gives up all that Starbucks and avocado toast.
Fuck, I love this idea so much. Maybe a health clinic on the ground floor too.
The ground floor mostly a Walgreens and the lobby, I lived a few blocks from it at 71 Broadway.
House the migrants that the republic governors keep trafficking to NYC.
Turn his apartment into a museum open to the public.
I think a public restroom would be more appropriate. With a picture of his face in each urinal. Though he'd probably enjoy that.
All this must really be stressing him out. Good. I sincerely hope he's stress-eating 'hamberders' on the toilet.
👏👏 Let's go, cholesterol, 👏👏 let's go!
Hope his tower get sized, he dies from the stressful situation, the tower get on a legal limbo never to be part of the Trump family again.
As someone with an elderly father, I have no idea how Trump is still alive given his diet, lack of exercise, and the amount of stress he's probably been under from being 99% hate.
He's either got the genetics on his side, or he ain't making it through a second term. If he loses to Biden again, I give him a few years before he's in a hospital bed for good.
God, I love this image.
Haha! Stupid tardigrade is bowing the strings under the bridge. What a loser.
What is the meme?
Worlds smallest violin but extra extra small
That is commonly known as a water bear. They are technically immortal and super super tiny. They are about this big: |---| (not to scale)
That is fantastic.
They don’t want your dumb buildings man, they just want their money.
So say the people of the state of New York!
So say we all!
I just want to see Trump and fam in cardboard boxes
Can't wait to see what goes up in place of Trump Tower. It's like the circle of life, Trump devours a New York landmark for his building and now the gawdy tower can be repurposed or rebuilt into something better for New York.
I'm hoping for a Spirit Halloween by October
I thought it was gonna be the Barack and Michelle Obama Immigrant Refuge? That's a good use for it.
That's the timeline I want to be in!
Ok, but to be fair that landmark looks like a concrete brick.
As opposed to a concrete brick with gold lettering.
Suffer, you sack of orange shit
I hope they use Trump Tower to house the homeless immigrants being shipped in from Texas.
They'll feel right at home with the famous Trump taco bowl.
We've gone from Charleton Heston talking about guns, "From my cold dead hands!" to DJ Trump saying, "KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!" as if they were some sort of American national monument and not the sleezy shithole that it is.
He should just ask Trump for money, I heard he's loaded.
Oh.
Guess we shall now see if human stupidity really is infinite...
God why didn't I think of that...
Probably shouldn't have committed all that fraud then.
Mr Trump’s lawyers notified an appeals court earlier this week that their client has failed to raise the capital to cover the bond, saying finding a surety company to help them was proving a “practical impossibility”.
The former president has approached “about 30 surety companies through four separate brokers”, his attorneys said, but had so far come back empty-handed in the face of “insurmountable difficulties”.
“Critical among these challenges is not just the inability and reluctance of the vast majority of sureties to underwrite a bond for this unprecedented sum, but, even more significantly, the unwillingness of every surety bond provider approached by defendants to accept real estate as collateral,” his attorneys wrote.Wait, so you're telling me that all those surety companies aren't willing to loan money to a known grifter who is famous for not paying back his loans? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
Ok, not that shocked.You left out “who is known to grossly overvalue the properties he’s trying to use as collateral?”
Maybe he needs a gofundme, just like regular Americans who can’t afford stuff like health care or unexpected funeral costs. See? He’s just like us.
His begging for money from supporters IS his GoFundMe.
Maga people will be stupid enough to bail him out.... Just watch
If they do at least that's half a billion less they can donate into PACs and such.
It continues: “Democrats think this will intimidate me. They think that if they take my cash to stifle my campaign, that I’ll give up! Here’s one thing they don’t know: WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!”
Your mugshots say otherwise.
I can not wait for NY state to convert that building into homeless shelter and shelter for human-trafficking victims from Texas
Pathetic, just like his fans.
I hope they blow up the Trump Tower symbol.
I just wanna be there when they drop the "T" off of it first..
Fun story about how Cadet Bonespurs built Trump Tower. He was handed a golden opportunity to get in good with the Manhattan elites, and through his own stupidity, arrogance, and sheer greed managed to garner the hatred of those he was so desperate to impress.
And John Barron makes a guest appearance!
Does he actually own any of them? I was under the impression he got money for them to use the name.
Normally you pay the building owner to put your name on the side of the building. Like renting a billboard.
Your would think. I read about it even before the president thing back when articles were somewhat legit.
The grifting thousandaire 😭
Babyllionaire begar
I love this so much. Orange man scared!
I love seeing him brought to such a pathetic new low. What’s even better is that he’s done it to himself.
I have one thing to say about this really. Welcome to the real world don. Now you too can feel the pain every American not in the 1% feels.
I really hate the title template of "[click-driving quote], explanation" but if you're going to do it, shouldn't the two parts of the headline be related? The quote is him talking to James, the explanation is him talking to voters. Weird.
Trump! He is good... but also, money is good. Debt collectors get money, therefore they are good..? But, Trump with no money is bad, and Trump with no building means... the extreme left has won - because socialism? Woke.. gay agenda.. coming to take away your guns, illegal immigrants, the Chinese... Chinese illegal immigrants! Something, something - I don't know. Look, just vote for Trump. Make America simple again.
You could have saved yourself a ton of down votes with a simple "/s" at the end lol
If people couldn't read that as sarcastic, then I welcome their downvotes.
It reads like the deadpan scene about a think-tank scheming in a prequel to "Idiocracy" and that alone should be enough.. I mean "something something"?
Trump is the idol of nationalist fascists, so dumb comes with the territory, but come tf on. Quiet parts get said aloud, but not that loudly... though I invite links to prove me wrong, because I'm masochistic - apparently. But, if not:
As Rudy Ray Moore once famously said...
Nah, /s needs to die.
You're delusional.
No more delusional than Trump thinking he's gonna get out of this lol
