NEW YORK — A seven-figure verdict, an eight-figure verdict and, now, a nine-figure verdict.
Donald Trump has been hit with all three in the past nine months, with Friday’s $354 million penalty for New York business fraud by far the most massive.
He is now on the hook for over $440 million in civil judgments as he heads toward the Republican nomination — and as he prepares for one or more criminal trials this year.
Those criminal cases could put him in jail. And in the meantime, his escalating troubles in his civil cases are packing a devastating financial punch.
Even for a man who claims to be a billionaire, $440 million is a potentially crippling amount of cash to turn over. Can Trump afford the judgments? When does he have to pay them? And what happens if he says he can’t — or if he outright refuses?
Who cares? I hope he ends up in prison. Being penniless would just be icing.
I care. I don’t want this weasel to con his way into a way to be president again and somehow pardon himself. It seems like for politicians there is always a way.
I want him to a penniless, too. In a typical state prison, prisoners have to pay for even basic shit like hygiene supplies and snacks. It’s barbaric and I want Trump to experience it.
He’d go on the news and talk about how nobody knew that’s how prisoners were treated, and that he’s the first person in history to understand how bad prison is.
After spending an overnight stay in county jail.