It's always important to remember that "putting up with stuff" for judges is mostly them making their case appeal prove. Because the judge accepts the bond, now they can't really bring it up on appeal. That's the whole reason.
The judge is only more lenient because he wants to pin Trump down and leave him without good arguments on appeal, which is what we want - nothing would be worse than to see everything get overturned.
You're not kidding, they get so many chances even when security needs to be called. Part of me is cynical though. It's always white guys in white courts, at least from what I've seen. I wonder how a black guy in a white court in one of those redneck states would be treated.
No, you reflect how a lot of Americans feel. For me it's not just Trump himself that's crazy, but the politics around Trump. A decent chunk of population wants an autocrat running the show.
Unfortunately there's also a lot of Americans being hoodwinked into thinking that this is now part and parcel of modern politics, the other guy is worse and the "liberal media" bury it. In a normal world, the polls should not be 50/50 if one of them is Trump.
The headline seems a bit inaccurate. It stipulates that the bond will be accepted as long as Trump's collateral for the bond -- $175M held in an account with Charles Schwab -- is not invested in securities. So as long as it sits there liquid. Essentially it makes all the wishy washy language in the deal and the debate about the bond issuer's cash on hand kind of moot and almost as if Trump had put up $175M in escrow.
Why doesn't New York just hand him several million dollars and a court ordered professional wanking? He's defied court orders, threatened staff and family of the court, missed deadlines, provided fraudulent agreements. He has done all sorts of misconduct. If it were one of us, we'd be in jail with our assets seized.
I think Trump's buddy Vince McMahon has liquidated all his stock and is sitting on like 2 billion cash, I thought he was gonna bail Trump out honestly. These rapists like to stick together.
I heard they've always had a competitive thing going, like "my plane is nicer than yours!" Type thing. It's crazy that the last time I watched wrestling like 20 years ago, Vince was a low millionaire, now he's a billionaire and way richer than Trump and can prove it.
He's probably waving his money in Donald's face and laughing.
The judge was just using a metaphor, but I like to think that he was actually referring to a fictional TV show which was about a crafty politician, but that crafty politician was played by a guy who devoted his off-time to sexual assault and sexual harassment.
So, Trump will lose the appeal, KISC will be left with the bill they can't pay, they'll fight it on the grounds that they're not based in NY and delay the judgement by tieing it up in the courts. If Trump wins, he uses his influence to either get them off the hook, or he'll funnel dirty Russian money into KISC to pay it off for them.
No, in another article from last week, he had put the amount they wanted in a separate bank account for them. It was more than the settlement amount. The bonder, at the least, isn't going to lose money from Trump.
That's why was clear that he would either make it disappear using his position as dictator, or use someone else's money.
Stiffing them is definitely in the cards too though.