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"I need a $500M loan, what do you want for collateral?"
"One billion dollars."
This is absolutely hilarious. Even Trump's cash is only worth 50% of its face value.
It's more you need to prove you have $1 billion for us to put up this $500 million because we don't trust you to not spend a $500 million collateral on hamberders, hush money and legal fees.
If they want cash as collateral, that cash would go into an escrow. Why would you tie up $1B in escrow in order to get $500M? You wouldn't; you would just use the cash you had.
It's like going to a pawn shop and asking how much they'll give you for a $20 bill, and they say $10.
I would imagine that the collateral could be cash or liquid assets like stocks or bonds. That would justify the additional demand of $1 billion, because stock values fluctuate. The benefit to Trump is that he wouldn't have to sell the assets, incurring a taxable event, and potentially losing out on future capital gains (or capital losses to be used as tax offsets).
Putting the money in escrow for the appeal would need to be cash.
So . . . he's not a billionaire?
Like we all knew? for years? And laughed at the fucking idiots who thought he was?
For srs? Wow. Just - mind blown.
With escrow its completely pointless as you say to not pay it yourself. So I have to assume it's the terms for when it's not to be put in escrow.
Kinda makes sense though. If he had physical property worth $500M, they could put a lien on it preventing him from selling it. If he had $500M cash, and used that as collateral, he could just spend it on his other legal issues and the banks would lose out.
He needs $1 Billion so he has some headroom for his other legal troubles to siphon some of it off and still have enough to pay back the bond.
I imagine during the Trump fire sale, buying a Trump property would require to invest heavily in clean up and bringing it to code. So yeah, $1 Donald Dollar is like half.