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Via Brad Moss:
#Trump’s lawyers will bill that much this month
Lara Trump: We have to raise a lot of money. I have great news. I have a check for the RNC for $100k that has been donated
#Trump may be about to get $3 billion richer. But that likely won’t solve his cash crunch
Trump won’t be able to monetize that stake right away,” said Matthew Kennedy, senior initial public offering market strategist at Renaissance Capital…Not only that, but Truth Social appears to be shrinking.” #shrinkage
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/business/trump-truth-social-dwac-shares?cid=ios_app
Via Andrew Weissmann:
This could strike some as reminiscent of when Manafort obtained $16M in loans approved by bank CEO Stephen Calk, who was seeking positions in Trump admin. Calk was convicted for that by jury in Manhattan. https://justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bank-ceo-stephen-m-calk-sentenced-one-year-and-one-day-corruptly-soliciting
MuellerSheWrote:
Looks like #EJeanCarroll bond was guaranteed by a subsidiary of the Chubb Group. #Trump appointed Chubb Group CEO Evan Greenberg to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations in 2018. So I guess he owes him one.
#BREAKING 1/...
Fulton County prosecutor Nathan #Wade resigns following judge's decision on #Trump election case #legal #FaniWillis
#Trump hush money trial briefly postponed until mid-April, judge rules
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin #Bragg had said he would support the trial being delayed 30 days, while Trump’s legal team requested that it be postponed for 90 days. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-hush-money-trial-briefly-postponed-april-judge-rules-rcna143612
Lol. #EJeanCarroll is awesome.
Via Klasfeld:
That said, it's hard to imagine E. Jean Carroll would oppose its approval.
From her triumphant newsletter:
"SURPRISE! #Trump just posted a bond to the stupendous amount of of $91,600,000."
Then, she adds this:
"Though the illustrious Robbie Kaplan is strong enough to yank a golden toilet out of the floor at Trump Tower & toss it thru the window, this bond saves Robbie the trouble of showing up w US Marshals on Mon. to do so."
Via one of my faves, @stevebenen:
Yet another Republican senator says he won’t endorse Trump in 2024
There are now three sitting Republican U.S. senators — and counting — who are not publicly backing Donald #Trump's 2024 candidacy. The list might yet grow. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/yet-another-republican-senator-says-wont-endorse-trump-2024-rcna142498
🤢 The GOP Fascist Party's Jesus, ladies and gents:
“Aides said he talked about #Ivanka #Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” Taylor writes.
“Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was ‘a very, very evil man.”
Via Andrew Weissmann:
My guess: #Trump may have someone like #Musk co-signing Chubb bond, so the bank is comfortable being on the hook for the judgment. Same could happen for the bond for AG $450M judgment. & this strategy wd allow co-signor to say truthfully that they did not give or loan Trump any $
Joyce Vance:
This=important pt. Trump is beholden to someone & we don't know who. Reporters shd ask him to explain all of the details. GOP leaders shd, but probably won't be esp concerned.
Guilty.
Via Aaron Rupar:
#Trump in Rome, Georgia: "The polls are all rigged. Of course, lately they haven't been rigged because I'm winning by so much."
#Trump seems to have defamed E. Jean Carroll again in Rome, GA via Lisa Rubin
"During a long speech at his rally, attended by NBC news, he referenced the $91.63 million bond he posted yesterday to stay enforcement of the $83.3 million judgment Carroll obtained—and said it was “based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn’t know, never head of, I know nothing about her.”
I wonder if posting of the bond for the Appeal makes him think he can reitigate it.
Via Lisa Rubin:
Maybe Akerman can shed some light on why this provision of #Trump’s bond seems to give Chubb 60 days or more from an appellate judgment in #EJeanCarroll’s favor before they have to pay her.
Mueller, She Wrote:
Scooplet: The law firm Akerman LLP has been retained to represent the Chubb Group for the $91.63M trump surety bond.
“An American company that paid the now indicted FBI informant Alexander #Smirnov in 2020 is connected to a UK company owned by #Trump business associates in Dubai, according to business filings and court documents.
Smirnov is now accused of lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden & Pres Biden”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/company-paying-fbi-informant-trump-connections?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Via former CIA atty Secrets & Laws: 1/…
#Trump's separate pres immunity motion hinges on this PRA argument. It's the "official act" underlying the immunity assertion. If #Cannon thinks it's a close call, that means a stay is likely coming.
When we eventually get to Trump's pres immunity assertion, even if Cannon denies it, she will stay the case unless she finds that the assertion is "frivolous." So today will be the early tell as to how she's leaning on this question.
#legal #documents
"#Trump is even or ahead in the polls because millions of swing voters have no idea just how authoritarian a 2nd term would be
Blame the media's massive failure to pound the drums about 1/6 pardons, 'retribution' and looming dictatorship."
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...
Via Kyle Griffin:
It's official: Donald #Trump has posted the $91.63 million bond in the #EJeanCarroll case so that he can appeal the ruling.
To answer your questions:
Yes, Trump’s vile quote is being covered on MSM, and no, the GOP Fascist Party doesn’t care.
Via Aaron Rupar:
On CNN, Sen. Mike Rounds, who hasn't endorsed Trump yet, defends #Trump warning of a "bloodbath" if he loses in November and indicates he will support him in the general election
Via Anna Bower: 1/...
#Trump’s #Georgia attorney, Steve Sadow, in response to a question about potential options to disqualify #FaniWillis following Judge McAfee’s ruling:
“Our first #legal option is to ask the Court to permit a pre-trial appeal of his disqualification order.”
To clarify. Via Rupar:
Ian, you're wrong. I watched the speech. Eric unpacks the relevant context here. It's a very odd look to be spinning for #Trump like this.
Eric Columbus:
Wise conway thread below about Trump's "bloodbath" remarks. And per @metzgov transcription Trump said the effect on the car industry would be "the least of" the effects of the "bloodbath for the country." This is the *opposite* of just talking about cars.
Me: Here's the thread:
Done.
#Trump's Truth [sic] Social is going public after winning DWAC merger vote
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/22/trump-truth-social-dwac-merger-public