After Donald Trump posted a bond of nearly $92 million on Friday as he appealed the jury’s verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s civil defamation case, legal analyst Andrew Weissmann warned on Sunday that the former president may be “beholden” to people behind the bond.
Trump, the likely GOP nominee in the 2024 presidential race, was ordered in January to pay $83.3 million to Carroll, a former Elle columnist, for damaging her reputation after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. A separate jury last year awarded Carroll $5 million from Trump for sexual abuse and defamation. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in those cases and said they were politically motivated.
The $91.6 million bond, which Trump posted on Friday, consisted of the $83.3 million judgment, along with statutory interest added by the State of New York. The bond was secured by the Federal Insurance Company, a part of insurance company Chubb Corporation. The bond has since sparked speculation over why the Federal Insurance Company decided to guarantee Trump’s bond and who within the company made the decision.
Trump is a walking, talking, living, breathing national security threat and constitutional crisis.
walking, talking, living, breathing
Debatable lmao
No shit Sherlock .
A basic security check for even low level government clearance would flag this as a risk.
Shit, you can lose clearance for having too much money (i.e., lottery winnings). “Assumed” clearance for certain government roles really should be challenged
As you recall, some of his family were flagged as security risks, but the president gets the final say so they got clearances anyway. I’m sure it was true for Trump himself.
I wonder if intelligence is paying attention
Intelligence didn’t care when it was Russia, why would they care when it’s this bondsman (insurance company or whatever)?
The intelligence agencies were literally the ones in government who cared the most about Russia wtf are you talking about? Almost every piece of media coverage you saw of Trump and Russia was originally from intelligence reports.
Okay so they reported it but did nothing to stop it? That’s my point I guess.
What do you honestly think they could’ve done to stop it?
If they couldn’t do anything to stop it, why would OP care if they’re paying attention or not?
I never said they couldn’t do anything, I’m saying they did about what they’re legally allowed to do minus some restraint for not wanting to even be perceived as interfering with an election.
They blew the whistle so many times it seems yall became deaf to it.
What? I don’t even know what you’re arguing anymore. I swear lemmy is so much more toxic than Reddit could dream to be. I’ve been Reddit free for over a year and this kind of arguing for the sake of arguing is just non stop here. It’s exhausting.
Turning off notifications, have a nice life 👋
