by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Today is the day the bills supposedly start coming due for Donald John Trump. Trump has been ordered to pay a $454 million judgement (including interest) from a civil fraud trial in New York. This particular case was the one where the state of New York argued that Trump and company had defrauded lenders and insurers out of millions of dollars by adjusting the values of properties in order to secure better deals.
A jury agreed with the state, and a judge set a judgement in the case equivalent to how much he calculated that the Trump Organization had profited from the high-stakes sleight-of-hand. Trump, of course, appealed the decision, as he always does, but he had to post a bond to cover the judgement and interest before the appeal could go forward. New York Attorney General Letitia James generously granted the self-proclaimed billionaire thirty days to come up with the money or post the bond, and it comes due today.
Trump reports that he has been unable to secure a bond because - he says - lenders won't finance a bond that large. He is now appealing the amount of the bond as well. But Trump, who does not want to be seen as strapped for cash, has now told Fox News Digital that he does indeed have $500 million in cash, but:
"That doesn't mean that I'm going to give money to a rogue and incompetent judge - the puppet of a corrupt attorney general who's failing with violent crime and migrant crime and whose only purpose in life is attempting to get Trump."
(Do they teach the Blowhard Defense at Wharton Business School?)
Letitia James could begin the process of seizing Trump's assets today, and Donald the Showman is already trying to incite the his followers with fanciful hallucinations about her potentially entering and attempting to take control of Trump Tower.
The seizures won't happen today, they won't happen a week or a month from now. They just will not happen. Donald Trump has lived his life without consequences, and that's not going to change. But it's nice to imagine, even for just a few minutes, that it could. Converting Trump Tower into low-income housing would take most (if not all) of the homeless population off the streets of New York, and his Westchester County National Golf Club would make an exemplary summer camp for disadvantaged city youth, and perhaps turn the mansion on the grounds into a year-round trade school. So many possibilities!
Wouldn't it be good for the soul to know that Donald Trump finally did something to benefit people who were in need, even if he did it kicking and screaming?
Nice dreams - like winning Powerball - but they will never happen.
He will never go to jail, either.
Laws in America are to control me and thee - but not him.
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