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“Desperate” Trump’s inability to get fraud bond makes him “massive national security risk,” Dem says

www.salon.com

"Any foreign adversary seeking to buy a President knows the price," warns Rep. Sean Casten

A Democrat who sits on the House Financial Services Committee warned that former President Donald Trump’s inability to secure a bond for his $464 million fraud judgment makes him a “massive national security risk.”

Trump’s lawyers in a filing on Monday told a New York appeals court that he cannot secure a bond after approaching 30 underwriters.

“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” the attorneys wrote.

The filing quoted an insurance broker who signed an affidavit stating that securing the bond is a “practical impossibility.”

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more of a national security risk. Right, he’s already selling secrets.
- Gotta hush all those girls he pees on in Russian hotels.
  
  Nah mate, he paid them to pee on a bed where Obama's family once slept.
- this is past tense, isn't it? like, he doesn't ave more secrets to sell, and he's sold the ones he already had....
  
  Unless he ends up in the white house again...then plenty more secrets to sell!
  I can't believe that's actually a possibility....
When I got my security clearance, one of the things they drove home was reporting people who were having money problems because, as this points out, having money problems makes you prone to being bribed, and thus a threat.
- I don't think it should negate you from running for high office but it should make people consider who they vote for.
  
  So that’s an interesting question there. An elected official gets to see top secret information that anyone else would have to go through a stringent check on. Why shouldn’t the elected official be held to the same standard as they will be accessing the same information? Why does being elected override that?
  
  Ideally, yes. But this guy can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and not lose any voters.
Lmao, as if there was ever a legitimate and legal way for him to get this money. "What if I sell secrets to somebody rich" was his default strategy before he even entered the white house. This doesn't make him any more of a security risk because he's already maxed out that metric many times over.
He is a security threat first and foremost with his previous debt he should never had had a security clearance. His outside connections make him the exact person people with clearances are trained to spot and bring up.
- And yet, here we are.
- It would be very interesting if a president was actually denied a security clearance
  
  The president doesn't actually hold a security clearance. Kushner was almost denied if I remember right, and definitely should have been.
I wonder what would happen if Putin straight up offered to cover his debts? I expect Trump would actually accept that offer and his idiot base would see nothing wrong with it if he did.
- Putin cares more for America than the Democrats do!
  
  By the way he's throwing away the lives of Russian citizens, I'm sure he cares about doing the right thing. Yeah...
  
  Damn looks like people are missing the sarcasm with this one.
  
  I love how that cut so bone-deep you got downvotes for it.
Which is exactly why we should drop all the lawsuits against him and proactively bribe him with patriot-money! /s
The s stands for both sarcasm and sadness...
Wow, guess the Saudis overpaid with that $1billion, they must be kicking themselves
- He already spent it. Probably on gold plating his own turds.
Honestly, I kinda want Putin to personally secure it for him. It would be a test of the system. It would let us know what needs to be done.
- Are we sure that Putin is good for it?
  
  Well he could fly over here and deliver it on person. Hopefully that route passes over Ukraine.
  
  It's just imaginary numbers in a computer Michael. How hard could it be?
Jail it is then.
The thumbnail looks like he just barfed on the back windshield of the car
risk? He was already working with Russia to subvert the 2016 election. He was bought a long time ago and has been transparently working for Russian interests since.
i think Honky McHonkface is ready to take that risk
- Huh?
- What’s the most common reason applicants for a security clearance are denied? Botched finances, the same one that causes those with clearances to lose them.
  The reason is self-evident: Military personnel in deep debt are considered more open to bribes or accepting money in exchange for revealing secrets
  Really not hard to put 2 and 2 together
  https://www.debt.org/veterans/military-security-clearances/#:~:text=What's%20the%20most%20common%20reason,in%20exchange%20for%20revealing%20secrets.
- Dudes off his rocker...
  
  The dude’s rocker is off its rocker…
- Imagine learning the English language purely off Trump speeches, tweets, and MAGA echo chambers.
- Donald Trump is public enemy number one and no amount of insults is gonna change that lmao
- My concern is more that he's a massive piece of shit, who does things like ignoring raging epidemics because he's afraid of the stock market dipping.
  
  because he's afraid of the stock market dipping.
  You are giving Trump far too much credit.
  The man neither understands nor cares about macroeconomics.
  He wants power in order to enrich himself. He has no other policy position.

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