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[–] [email protected] 227 points 5 months ago

Oh, buddy. Everyone laughs at you all the time. That time was just to you face.

[–] [email protected] 146 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"What, they’re going to start seizing assets if he can’t put up something that’s not available in the United States?"

Yup.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, this comment hurts in hindsight

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Everything hurts.

[–] jballs 89 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They should consider committing less crimes.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago

They should consider committing less crimes fewer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Why not both? Fewer and lesser crimes. I’ll have one count of jay-walking please

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Bogus charge to criminalize walking and make the pedestrian the bad guy in accidents.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, Daddy was bragging on truth social that he had $500 million in cash a couple days ago

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Wait. Hasn't he a gofoundme going? If he is bragging about having the money already, what does he need the donations for. 🤔

But what do i know.. I'm just a dumb European and the conservative Americans are so much smarter then me. They'll def are correct in further donating for Don Poorleon. 👍

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago
  • He claims he has half a billion in liquid cash.
  • He has a donate to his legal expense portal.
  • He's attempting to borrow from anyone dumb enough to lend to him.
  • He's using the RNC as a personal piggy bank.

Some of these may overlap. And borrowing to pay expenses while using the interest as a tax deduction is a long utilized tool of the rich. But his real assets are intended to act as collateral on these loans.

With outstanding loan debt, judgments that can seize his assets, and mounting other leaks in his financing, this is his margin call on all the bad bets he's made. Including betting on himself.

He thinks that simply having his name on something means it's his to do as he please. But when the government and the banks start calling, it's his ass.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No, Eric, they want to avoid losing $454,000,000.00.

Edit: almost have him an excuse to save money.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! I actually dropped three of the fuckers ‘cause I wanted all the zeroes possible to display because he owes that many zeroes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago

My feelings! They LAUGHED at me, those big meanies!

Fuckin snowflakes

[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they only laughed because you were serious

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh god I'm edging so hard my dick could cut diamonds.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago

Sir, this is a Wendys.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This is their big play? It doesn't need to be one bond. I read that those companies have a $100 million limit on bonds. Trump needs to put up several bonds. Or just use his yuge pile of cash he says he has. Or hell, double down on the lies and lose his holdings.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago

It's Eric trump...

He probably legitimately doesn't know that, and the phone calls probably only get to:

Who is this?

Iiiiiiiit's Errrrrric!

Before the laughter starts

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure James also already made it known he can post some of his properties directly to the court as collateral, skipping a 3rd party bond agency, but sounds like he wouldn't be able to do that if he has liens against them all, which he probably does.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

Snap back to reality, ope, there goes gravity

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

don't worry, a judge just ruled that Don is a special boy and doesn't have to follow the same laws as everyone else so he doesn't need to put up the whole bond.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're fucking kidding me.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/nyregion/trump-bond-reduced.html

He's God's Most Special Guy, so he gets yet another exception to the law. Courts have ruled that he has to put up less than half of what would be required of anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Fucking fuck. Heartbreakingly shitty country.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, they weren't laughing at him, they were laughing with him.

Edit: that's very much /s.

Absolute horseshit.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Eriks always laughed at tho...how can he tell it's about loans this time???

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

his penis wasn't out

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

Trump can't do shit, he's leveraged to the hilt & his name is poison now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

They decided ERIC was the best one to spin this?

[–] gravitas_deficiency 24 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

It's normal to laugh at clowns

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn’t he be used to being laughed at? Has he ever seen Saturday night live?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

He's never seen it,, 'cause SNL comes on after his bed time.