• @[email protected]
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    PSA: it’s not over yet, they have until 25th of March. Don’t discard a boatload of rubles showing up on March 24th.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah for real. Putin may be a dick, but unlike Trump he is way ahead in the dictator plays and is estimated to be sitting at well over 100 billion USD. 500 million to bail out the US president who would gladly take the U.S. out of NATO for him seems absolutely reasonable.

    • stinerman
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      Oh that’s my birthday. What a good present to have if Letitia James starts selling his shit then.

    • @[email protected]
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      I was curious, so I did the (lazy) math.

      1 USD is going for about 90 Rubles currently.

      Assuming a Ruble is roughly the size of a USD…

      A $1M USD stack made of 100 x $10,000, or 10 x 10 stacks measures 12" across x 13" front to back x approx. 5" tall. That is 780 cubic feet or a bit more than 22 cubic meters.

      At $464 USD, assuming 90 Ruples per USD and that Rubles are roughly the same dimension as a USD (464 x 90 x 780 or 22) we get 32,572,800 cubic feet or 918,720 cubic meters.

      Cargo ship size is usually measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container. The internal volume of one of these containers is 1,172 cubic feet or 33.2 cubic meters.

      Assuming a standard container size, it would take 28,710 TEUs to move the entire Trump bond via ship. The maximum TEU of the largest container ship listed on Wikipedia is 24,232, leaving Trump 4478 TEUs, 5,248,216 cubic feet or 143,296 cubic meters, and $72M short.

      TL;DR: Even with the biggest boatload of Rubles, Trump would still come up short on the bond.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        12" across x 13" front to back x approx. 5" tall. That is 780 cubic feet or a bit more than 22 cubic meters.

        I’m not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou.

  • BringMeTheDiscoKing
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    Now even our Gloriously Orange Saviour’s lawyers are spouting FAKE NEWS! Bunch of LINOs!

    There’s no bond! There’s no judgement! Some very smart folks are saying there may not even be a legal system! Have you ever actually SEEN a judge?

    Fear not, our Incredibly Patriotic and Stable Genius is still running the show from Truthy Social.

    Ok, hopefully that’s everyone inoculated.

    • @[email protected]
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      As much as I want Trump to be locked up, it would have to be for one of his multiple criminal indictments. Locking people up for not being able to pay fines is basically recreating debtors prisons and is hugely unfair to poor people.

      • @[email protected]
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        That’s already the case for everyone else, let’s make it apply to the biggest piece of garbage in the world.

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          Sort of. The Supreme Court said you cannot be jailed for not being able to pay a fine, only for willingly not paying a fine that you can afford to pay. However, it is up to a judge’s discretion as to whether a person can afford a fine or not.

          In this case, Trump has a lot of properties he can sell to pay a fine.

    • @[email protected]
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      He’s got to be fuming. He’s managed to go 75 years without ever being held accountable by anyone for anything. And now it’s happening. He’ll drain the RNC by August.

    • Flying Squid
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      Be surprised. James now has the legal right to start seizing his assets in New York.

      Hopefully we’ll see this by autumn.

          • Atelopus-zeteki
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            sooner better. start selling his assets on the auction block. we’ll never recoup all the harm he has done, but we can do something.

  • @[email protected]
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    Gee, he can’t pay for his business fraud judgments with his sneaker fraud or his nft trading card fraud?

    What about all the bribes he illegally and treasonously accepted by premiers of hostile countries?

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        Yesss!

        Also every immigrant gets their own golf tournament where they’re the only contestant so they win by default.

        That would make Trump’s win just one of many. I’m certain he would dislike that.

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      If only he hadn’t publicly slandered the same person twice more after successfully being sued the first time.

      • Chris
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        Sadly he posted bond on E. Jean Carol’s settlement so she won’t see a dime for years as it goes through appeals

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          On the first one, yes. This is the second one, that he’s failed to post bond for, and won’t be allowed to appeal unless he can.

          The third was videotaped as he walked out of the verdict on the second.

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        He’s trying to get his frequent slanderers card punched enough to get the tenth slander for free.

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      The aggression in Liotta’s laugher makes it the most appropriate gif.

  • andyburke
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    The other bond companies will not “accept hard assets such as real estate as collateral,” but “will only accept cash or cash equivalents (such as marketable securities),” the filing said.

    Perfection.

    They won’t let him pay with play money anymore.

    • Billiam
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      AKA “we have no idea how much your property is actually worth because you’ve been lying about it for years, so we want things that have a value set by someone other than you.”

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          It’s this.

          Anyone would be stoked to lend $500m if he could give them, say, $1b in clear property titles.

          He can’t because other banks already have their mortgage registered on the titles, and those banks have obviously reached the limit of what they will offer.

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          31 year ago

          This is what I’m expecting, that or appraisals will end up finding out many of these places are worth way less or need condemning/major work to be sellable.