Can you imagine anybody laughing at Eric Trump? What kind of a world do we live in anyway? I am shocked, I tell you, shocked. If you have ninety-four seconds to listen to Eric lie, he’s in his usual high pitched faux outrage mode. “He’s supposed to put up something that’s not available in the United States?” asked Eric. Yes, it is available, Eric. Maybe not in one lump sum but a handful of smaller bonds are absolutely obtainable. But in Eric’s world, it’s like unobtainium on Pandora, the mean powers that be are denying his Daddy the power source he needs. Hold your breath until you turn blue as a Na’vi, Eric, maybe that will help.

The problem with this, just like a kid who claims the dog ate his homework, is that Donald Trump did nothing to prepare for any of this. He let it all happen, and now he’s crying the night before the Sheriff pots the Eviction Notice, so to speak.

Trump did nothing after his September 2023 finding of liability for Fraud in New York to prepare himself, his assets, and/or his fans for the Monday deadline he now faces—which he’s sworn to the court it would be impossible for anyone to meet.

To be sure, the lies Trump has told on this score are too many to count. Most notably, of those lenders that simply refused to do business with him he has now said that they lacked the financial abilitynot the willingness—to aid him; he has falsely stated that no bond of this size has ever been required of a corporate entity in American history; and he pretends that he’s being asked to liquidate assets in a matter of days that in truth he and his sprawling team of lawyers, business subordinates, accountants, and real estate managers had half a year (at a minimum) to transform into new liquidity.

Now, at the eleventh hour, the man who even his allies in the Kremlin—including top Kremlin propagandist Konstantin Rykov—like to call an “old brigand” is suddenly saying that a supposedly impossible bond payment may be possible after all. So what has Trump been doing in the shadows since September 2023 to bring us to this point, and how will this declaration change what’s now set to happen this coming Monday?

The simple fact is that either Trump makes his bond or the State of New York begins seizing his New York properties, likely starting with 40 Wall Street and some smaller properties in Westchester County. It would be a slow collapse of a business “empire” that would take months to reach completion; would happen in full view of the public; would drain monies and attention (including Trump’s attention) from his presidential campaign; would change forever how millions of Americans who thought of Trump as a successful businessman see him; and could even have a significant influence on the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This collapse of one of the most wildly over-hyped brands in international business history could lead to personal bankruptcy proceedings, the end of Trump’s political career, or even, depending on how deranged he becomes at the prospect of losing not only his money but whatever dignity he had left, renewed attempts to incite localized violence against state and/or federal officials.

So what’ll it be? What destabilizing drama does Trump’s latest moral and ethical and legal and logistical and political and financial failure now import for the rest of us?

And you know he’s got a destabilizing drama ready. That much is certain. What Eric did just now on Fox News is egregious. He targeted Judge Engoron and demonized him. I fear that somebody is going to get killed. In all events, it’s grossly unfair that public figures involved with Trump in any manner, whether it’s Dr. Fauci, Mitt Romney or Judge Engoron, have to hire teams of security guards to protect themselves and their families. That is a travesty.

Mewl and puke some more, Eric, the wheels of justice are grinding and they grind exceedingly fine.

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  1. “Not available in the United States!” Eric said this more than once. Sounds to my ear like the justification for getting the money from Orban or Putin or MSB. “This is not a national security problem on the part of my father! Engoron is the one who forced my father into the loving rich arms of malign foreign sources of funding!”

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