The former president, who is appealing the judgment in his civil fraud case, asked an appeals court to let him avoid paying the full amount in the meantime.

It’s pretty clear he doesn’t have the cash to pay the judgement in full, and will need to sell illiquid assets at a discount in order to pay the full amount.

  • stoly@lemmy.world
    66·
    8 months ago

    LOL I love the idea that you can negotiate here. It’s pretty clear that they really don’t understand the ramifications of what has happened.

    When Trump was first elected, it was clear that they never actually planned to win and govern. They had no plan, no staff in place, nothing. They literally didn’t understand that you needed to do that.

    If Trump had just stayed a celebrity real estate agent, nobody would have paid much attention to his business dealings. It’s clear that they didn’t understand that life would change after becoming a political figure. The same keeps happening–they can’t seem to get that he’s not a private business person whose dealings are opaque.

    • Dagwood222
      47·
      8 months ago

      If Donnie had just stepped back and let Fauci and the professionals take over, he’d have won 2020.

      Heck, he could ahve extorted billions out of the Saudis just by suggesting he might change US policy.

      All his failures are about his pride.

      • BakerBagel@midwest.social
        29·
        8 months ago

        Literally all he had to do was start selling red MAGA masks. Instead he encouraged millions of his supporters to avoid quarantine, dont wear masks, and take homey cures and it cost him the election. Wonder how many of the hundred thousand plus COVID deaths in Georgia were Trump supporters?

            • Dagwood222
              6·
              8 months ago

              If I had an interview with Trump, I wouldn’t go after his big lies. I’d keep hammering away at all the little ones.

              “Who is John Barron?”

              “Who were the detectives you sent to Hawaii to investigate Obama’s birth certificate.”

              “Why did you say you had walked in on the Miss Teen USA contestants?”

              This are three that instantly come to mind, but I’m sure I could find hundreds more

              • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
                7·
                8 months ago

                I feel like anytime he’s face with facts, he changes the subject and starts rambling again. Sea lioning Gish Gallop I believe it’s called. Multiple reporters have tried to do what you suggest, but mostly it’s futile. His brain only knows how to construct incoherent rambling and insults.

                One Axios reporter did do a good job once though iirc.

                Edit: Gish Gallop is the term I was looking for, as gracefully pointed out below! Thank you!

        • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
          8·
          8 months ago

          He’s way too stupid to see beyond a day or two in the future, so when covid hit cities and he realized dem voters were dying he came out against any protective measures. He couldn’t understand that it would eventually mean more of his cultists would die off.

      • nxdefiant@startrek.website
        7·
        8 months ago

        If he had the capability to put competent people in positions and then let them do their job, then he may have been a successful President instead of a raging nuclear tire fire.

    • DrMango@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      That’s what kills me. This guy could have lived out the rest of his days banging pornstars and defrauding investors and no one would have raised an eyebrow until the posthumous Netflix documentary, but no, he had to go and accept the most public job in the country.

      He chose this.