“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.”
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.
Keep on telling yourself that 🥹
Bruh what? Why are you so defensive? I wasn’t attacking you. I was just presenting facts
Well now I know you’re joking. Yahoo News 😂 you almost had me.
I mean I just grabbed the first source. Meanwhile you won’t find a source for your claim anywhere, because he was never accused of that.
He admitted to hiring prostitutes to pee on a bed. It’s not a stretch to imagine that they performed other tasks.
Either way, Donald Trump hired prostitutes.
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…
I can’t believe that’s actually a possibility…
me neither. I really want to wake up and find out the last 8 years have been one long, fucked up dream.
As the GOP nominee he will begin to receive some intelligence briefings even before the elections, as early as July. It was recently reported that the White House, caught in a “damned if you damned if you don’t scenario” that is synonymous with Trump, sided to go with tradition & allow Trump access to these, even while he fights a classified documents mishandling case in court. This wouldn’t make any sense in a Jack Ryan novel & yet …
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?
Well, in my opinion, I’d rather have a homeless person as president than a rich bastard. I don’t think wealth should influence electability, but it does anyway. There should be plenty of checks in place though, just not requiring wealth.
Because those processes aren’t democratic, and the office of the president ought to be democratic.
Imagine that the US air force is operating an extrasolar space exploration program out of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex using an ancient egyptian wormhole generator. Naturally, knowledge of the Stargate program is restricted to air force personnel with top secret security clearance. But it is absolutely essential that a democratically elected president should have knowledge and oversight of the program, and the power to make knowledge of extraterrestrial life made public if democratically appropriate. Such programs should not solely be known of by personnel who pass the military’s standard for secrecy, because otherwise you essentially have a government controlled by the military.
I mean I agree.
I also think that we could do away with primaries and parties together, then put together a list of qualifications for all the available elected positions; each voter is required to when registering to list their qualifications; then at random we select a pool of potential applicants for a given campaign cycle. We then vote on the candidates and decide. Public office shouldn’t be a career, it should be a civic obligation like jury duty. Unless you have a valid reason to not hold office, welp, if your number comes up…
I’d buy a lottery ticket for the chance to become president for a term.
I mainly just don’t think that the majority of leaders are remotely qualified, nor do I think a career of seeking power qualifies you to wield it.
I’d rather you were President (so long as you meet some minimum qualifications).
My penis is 37.5mm long.
It that long enough?
37.5mm
I mean its not the qualification I would lead with, its fine.
Presidents can have a little penis, as a treat.
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.
And yet nothing happens becuz he’s running fah office
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.
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And shepherds we shall be. For thee, my Lord, for thee. Power hath descended forth from thy hand that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to thee and teeming with souls shall it ever be.
Willem Dafoe in drag rescuing us from Trumpism? I’m down.
In nominae Patri, et Fili, et Spiritus Sancti.
Amen.
Boondocks Saints really aged poorly.
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.
With the level of loony of of MAGA, yeah, that’s exactly what someone in his camp would say.
Yea the red hats certainly did a fine job murdering satire.
I love how that cut so bone-deep you got downvotes for it.
I downvoted it because it was dumb as fuck.
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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.
Even if not, US is obligated to get him to the court. I imagine the hearings would last months, maybe years. But he can grab the bird by it’s tail and become, param-pam-pam!, a prison reviewer!
This Supermax prison, khe-khe, is nothing like our Polar Wolf or Black Dolphin. Like, nothing at all. I’m collected in a clean environment, three foods per day, no torture. They feel like that’s how you treat your most dangerous bastards? Most of my countrymen strive to live like this, honestly.
It’s just imaginary numbers in a computer Michael. How hard could it be?
Blyat!
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
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Huh?
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Yeah, such as anyone trying to unscramble your… “thoughts”
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No thank you. I prefer to read.
I’m not watching what is most likely Russian propaganda.
You’re looking at someone who hasn’t taken their lithium for a few days.
One of my favorite things about lemmy is getting to check the mod logs to see the unhinged shit people get banned for rather than it being lost, like tears in rain…
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If someone doesn’t understand, you as the one “speaking” have failed. It’s not the fault of your audience that you cannot properly convey what you are trying to say.
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Are you calling people sheep because, like sheep, they can’t understand what you’re saying due to you using the sentence syntax of a stroke victim?
The link didn’t work for me. Can you make sure it works?
Not if you refuse to elaborate, no.
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What was that rickroll link again?
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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
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Sure, disease can spread from spitting in someone’s mouth, but there are other ways too so spitting directly in someone’s mouth just isn’t a big deal!
Dudes off his rocker…
The dude’s rocker is off its rocker…
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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.
What credit? It was shortsighted, and ignoring it and hoping it would go away did far more economic and real life harm than if he had just followed established procedure. He should be in the Hague for how he handled Covid, forget Jan 6 and classified documents.
