Trump's Troubles

Read the charge sif you want to know. But nothing djt does is a crime to his faithful, the entire world, except Putin and Xi, are out to get him and ergo out to get you because he is just like you, a commoner with the big gubmnt boot on his poor, hard working throat.

 

I fail to understand how this would satisfy the bond requirements if the account is still under control of djt.

who determines what is a "cash equivalent"? Can he dump a few million shares of his media stock in and call it a cash equivalent?

and then they trust the trump corporation to make sure the account stays funded? really?

Details of How Trump Scored $175M Bond Revealed in Court Filings (msn.com)

“The $175 million bond is collateralized by $175,304,075.95 in cash held in a Charles Schwab account pledged to KSIC, and KSIC has the right to exercise control over that account,” the company and Trump’s lawyers said in a joint memorandum.

His eldest known son, Don Jr., signed off on the deal on behalf of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust last month, granting Knight a security interest over the brokerage account.

The insurance company now has a “first priority lien and security interest” on whatever money is stored in that account. The Trump trust will be required to ensure it contains “no less than $175 million in cash or cash equivalents at all times,” according to the memorandum.

The Schwab account in question appears to be different from another Schwab account Trump put up as collateral when he secured a $92 million bond through Chubb’s Federal Insurance Co. in his federal rape defamation case.

 

Letitia James Is Hunting for Evidence of Trump Perjury (msn.com)

"Defendants' argument boils down to the proposition that the Court is powerless to determine if a fraud was committed upon it during the course of two separate proceedings because discovery is now closed," he wrote.

Wallace wrote that if the court was to accept the Trump team's arguments, that would mean a judge could not investigate perjury that occurred during a trial "even when a named Defendant admits to having committed perjury during the discovery process and subsequent trial."

Wallace added that more documents are required from The Trump Organization.

"The potential failure to properly produce documents in a legal proceeding relevant to the valuation of Mr. Trump's triplex plainly falls...within the power of this Court to safeguard the integrity of its own proceedings," Wallace wrote.

 

I like this judge. surprised the prosecutor didn't ask for stiffer penalty.

make him post $1M bond to be forfeited next time he violates the order with a rider declaring that each subsequent violation will increase the bond 10x and if he can't fund the bond he will be incarcerated without access to digital devices for the duration of the trial.

"No more games": Legal experts says judge already put "out of control" Trump's lawyers on notice (msn.com)

The adjustment process will no doubt be difficult. On Monday, Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the first ever prosecution of a former president, made it abundantly clear to Trump and his legal team that it will be he and the New York criminal justice system calling the shots from here on out.

Particularly striking was an exchange Monday afternoon between Merchan and Trump lawyer Todd Blanche. Prosecutors had drawn attention to Trump’s social media posts attacking his former personal attorney Michael Cohen and adult film star Stormy Daniels, the woman whose silence he is accused of illicitly buying off with a $130,000 payment ahead of the 2016 election. Trump, his attorney argued, had fired off the posts in question because they had disparaged him first.

Merchan, who earlier prohibited such attacks on witnesses, instructed Blanche to come back with a written argument as to why Trump shouldn’t be held in contempt (prosecutors want the posts deleted and the former president fined).

“When you respond, direct me to any portion of the original gag order or the subsequent gag order that says there is an exception to the gag order if Mr. Trump feels he is being attacked,” Merchan said, as reported by Business Insider. “I don’t recall inserting that anywhere in either gag order.”