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The walls are crumbling around Trump faster than they can apply new plaster. Trump has until 8 pm next Monday to come up with the $454 surety bond to forestall New York AG Letitia James from taking steps to recover the damages while Trump appeals the ruling.
It’s not going well. New reporting is that His Lowness is thundering around Mar-A=Slobo in a rage, furious that it’s taking so long to get the bond for the court. Traitor Tot already debased himself by having his lawyers admit to the court that he can’t raise the ready, despite seeking assistance from more than 30 brokers and bond outfits. And now both Judge Engoron as well as AG James are mocking him.
As someone who has lived inside of Trump’s fetid swamp of a brain for so long that brain bleach no longer helps, I can easily read and decipher exactly what’s going on here, and it’s pure Trump.
NY AG James is mocking El Pendejo Presiente for two reasons. First James knows that the excuses in Trump’s filing are nothing more or less than lame, puerile bullsh*t, and she wants to point that out to the court. Second, she knows full well that when you twist Trump’s tail, he promptly goes insane and makes imbecilic self damaging admissions, such as admitting in an interview this week that he actually took the documents in the first place.
James argued in her filing that Trump contacted more than 30 brokers and bondsmen looking for the bond, saying that they wouldn’t accept his real estate as collateral, only cash of redeemable equities. James gleefully pointed out that nothing in the court order required a single source for the bond. Why not spread the $454 million around over several brokers or bondsmen, just like he has for his real estate dealers with investors? And second, if the bondsmen won’t take his real estate as collateral, the court sure as well will! All he has to do is to bring $454 of unencumbered real estate to the court, and they’ll hold in lieu of a bond as collateral for his appeal.
Nine years and counting that I’ve been living in Trump’s fevered brain so you don’t have to. And where it comes to this surety bond kerfuffle, here’s the straight bullshot. Trump never even seriously tried to get the bond. He just had his legal flunkies call and ask, and when they laughed, he said f*ck it, and moved on to the next one. And then submitted his vyllsh*t filing to the court.
Here’s why, and I’m betting Mary Trump would back me up on this. Get it straight, people. Trump. Never. Takes. Orders. He. Gives. Orders. And no pipsqueak New York Judge or emancipated black woman with a fancy title is going to tell him how he’ll appeal, or what he’ll do to appeal.
I have no doubt that Il Douche made the calls, but he wasn’t serious about negotiating a bond that would cripple his business. In his fevered brain the point is, he made the calls, and got turned down. And now Trump the mogul will submit a filing, and tell these penny ante twits exactly what he’ll give them in order to file his appeal. Because he’s the ultimate winner! A very stable genius.
And here’s what’s turning him into a feral civet cat. James and Engoron aren’t playing his game. This isn’t politics, and it isn’t real estate. This is a lawsuit, and Engoron and James have a little doohicky called the law on their side. And the law doesn’t give a sh*t about Hair Twitler’s Trumper tantrums. And far down in his sick psyche, Trump is singing the old country tune, I fought the law, and the law won.
David Cay Johnson and I were right all along. Trump may actually have some $5 billion in real estate assets. But as I wrote yesterday, Trump doesn’t own a parking lot that doesn’t already have an equity loan or 2ndmortgage already attached to it. And the court will only accept unencumbered titles as alternate collateral for a surety bond. And Trump doesn’t have any.
And this civil suit legal tussle is already having a negative effect on his campaign. I wrote yesterday that Trump’s small donor base was finally going through Trump donation fatigue. Every Trump text and e-mail blast is like an outtake from Apocalypse Now, death and devastation if they don’t pitch in! And once again the campaign didn’t disappoint. They sent out a hysterical blast today, with Trump literally pleading for Help in keeping Trump Tower out of Letitia James greedy mitts! Even a clerk at the auto parts store has to be wondering why a nuti billionaire needs their $50 to keep his bloody building?
From where I’m sitting, this outcome has always been predetermined. Trump built an alternate reality in which his sociopathic, narcissistic self was the ultimate winner that nobody could touch. And for almost 50 years he got away with it, simply because he was too chump change for the legal system to waste the time and effort on. Which only served to reinforce his sick, twisted fantasies of being above the law.
But now the law is here, and they brought a battering ram. And as The Swamp Thing said has he tooled Con Air down the Strip, Brother! We are sh*t out of runway! And so is Trump. And deep down he knows it. And her’s scared sh*tless.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
I believe in layman’s terms it’s called a house of cards.
A most excellent and articulate piece, Joseph. Your title, too: you could register it and produce a doco series. I’m sure you’d have many agreeable followers of suggested blockbuster series. You could retire a happy soul, in contrast to the fulminating, but concurrently decomposing, malodorous mango, as he spectacularly face plants.
I hope friends are trying to talk Bob Dylan into a parody re-write of Rainy Day Women, changing the tag line/theme from “Everybody must get stoned” to “Trump has finally gotten BONED!”
Arrr hah hahhh harrrr! Love it!
Forbes did an analysis of his New York properties. They all have mortgages on them, some for more than half their value. there are also properties with his name on them which he does not own even a bit, properties for which he owns the ground lease (that’s a whole big can of worms there) and some like Trump Tower where all he owns is the commercial area and his own penthouse. some where he might or might not own a few units.
He does not have unencumbered property to offer.