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Idiot Trump Confesses He Actually Has the Money to Post Bond (newrepublic.com)

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Donald Trump is close to the deadline to post bond in his fraud trial—and he’s screwing himself over even more.

After having reached out to several guarantors and 30 suretors for help posting his $464 million New York bank fraud bond, Donald Trump suddenly wants everyone to know he actually does have the cash.

In a bizarre rant on Friday morning, the man who was found to have defrauded banks and investors by overvaluing himself and the value of his properties claimed that he had accrued the wealth by way of “HARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK.”

Trump also admitted he has nearly half a billion dollars in cash.

The confession directly contradicts a filing from his legal team last month arguing that it would be “impossible” to secure a bond covering the full amount of the multimillion-dollar ruling.

Trump’s words will surely help out New York Attorney General Letitia James, who on Wednesday urged an appeals court to ignore Donald Trump’s latest effort to worm his way out of paying the $464 million disgorgement from his bank fraud trial.

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 53 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This was actual testimony by Michael Cohen in one of the cases he testified in. Either the Trump or case org the stormy Daniels case

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

I don't think it was Cohen who said it. This article fro 2016 suggests it was Pat McGahn in a 1993 deposition during the Trump Plaza bankruptcy case.

In a deposition under oath taken in 1993, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers said they always tried to meet with him in pairs “because Donald says certain things and then has a lack of memory.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/trumps-lawyer-we-met-with-him-in-pairs-to-avoid-lies

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

Ooo, good work!

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

So he just says whatever he needs to say at the moment to rationalize whatever result he wants.

That helps explain why Republicans love him so much I guess.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He’s like if immersive, self-indulgent self-delusion were a drug you could do just by turning on the tv. A modern religion around solipsism.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

I tried to find a link but my Bing-Fu is weak.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

I tried to look, too, but it was from a few years ago, and my results are flooded with articles about more recent Trump lies and lying lawyers, since he does it pretty much constantly.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

but it was from a few years ago, and my results are flooded with articles about more recent

I'd like to take a moment to highlight how much a problem this is. It feels like stuff is getting memory-holed not even on purpose, but because search engines aren't good at letting people filter by date range etc.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

We're talking about Trump here. There was a list of 10,000 lies he told while he was in office.

At least 10,000 because the article is from 2019

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-has-made-10000-false-and-misleading-claims-washington-post-fact-checker-145444166.html

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Upvoted for not using Google.

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