• TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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    8 months ago

    Having a court appointed auditor also makes it difficult for him to use laundered money (or otherwise illegal sources). He has already claimed the auditor has cost him “millions”, which isn’t a thing if you’re operating “beautifully” and above board all legal like.

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      Why do you think Orban is visiting MaL? Trump is about to accidentally find money he shoved under his mattress laundered through sneakers.

      [Sneakers that aren’t even scheduled to ship for another four months, if ever. I’m really hoping his babysitter is watching this.]

    • cbarrick@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Putin’s strapped for cash too.

      The ruble is in the toilet. All of the oligarchs’ foreign assets are frozen. The “two-week special military operation” in Ukraine has dragged on since 2022.

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        8 months ago

        Did the Swiss banks finally stop laundering money for them?

        Or have they been running the way war mostly with Chinese loans lately?

      • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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        Putin probably has billions of dollars squirreled away in banks all over the world. He’s been extorting oligarchs for huge kickbacks for decades now. If they don’t pay up they find themselves shipped to Siberia or thrown out a window.

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    Imagine being so morally bankrupt that you’re willing to pay the legal fees of a convicted rapist so that he can go on to become Dictator For A Day™.

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    8 months ago

    The RNC is already gearing up to pay for him. Rob the uneducated masses (remember, we’re talking republicans here!) and pay the wealthy orange dude for his past actions before he was president, let’s go!

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      8 months ago

      The party only has $8 million cash on hand as of their Feb SEC filling. They can’t pay for his corporate fraud. They can’t even pay for his sexual assault. They will probably pay for some of his lawyers in the cases about stealing national secrets and trying to steal the election.

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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The clock is ticking for Donald Trump to pony up roughly half a billion dollars to satisfy two recent courtroom losses.

    The cash crunch challenges Trump’s long-projected image of a successful businessman with deep pockets and a maverick’s ability to outmaneuver legal and financial troubles.

    Now, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for 2024 could end up heavily indebted to a bank, donor, or some other source of capital.

    Trump has until Monday to post $83.3 million to meet the judgment for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll and denying her rape allegations against him.

    Without any changes, Trump said he would need to produce $91.63 million, which includes the district court’s common practice of requiring a bond of 110% of the judgment.

    March 25, meanwhile, is also the first day of jury selection in Trump’s first criminal trial, related to the cover up of hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.


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  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    assuming half of the population is braindead means 165,5 million ppl need to give less than 50bucks. bam. consider it done. trump will get the money.

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      This is a civil case, jail ixnf an option. But they can take his buildings by force

      Edit: *isn’t

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          Which wouldn’t work because they want us to keep digging ourselves into a deeper hole and line their pockets with interest without ever actually bringing the balances down. Can’t really do that in prison where you’re not generating any income for yourself.

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            Can’t really do that in prison where you’re not generating any income for yourself.

            You say that but prisons can and do force prisoners to work jobs and then use the income from that job to pay for the prisoner’s own sentence.

            Most people who leave prison leave with a hefty bill for room and board, even after performing legal slave labor.

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              I didn’t know that part, I figured with privatization it was the prisons making money just from having more people locked up, and any work they got was essentially slave labor for the benefit of the prison and its partners for pennies on the dollar.

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        I’m curious what happens if they take his buildings that are used as collateral for other buildings/loans. might cost him much more?