Feels a bit ridiculous.
Even low-balling Trump's supposed wealth, that's like setting bond for the average person at $7.50.
Different rules when you're rich.
Or at least pretending to be rich 😉
Does it matter? His fans have probably already donated thrice that amount while feeling smug.
He's pretending to be obscenely rich while he's just quite rich.
Holy shit dude they might as well have set the bond at $130k to coincide with his Stormy Daniels payment
Let's just up it to 2M so we can fund MARTA.
I love MARTA. I also know it has its problems. As a neighbor from a nearby small city, I don't even have a business stop within 5 miles of my house. I love being able to take MARTA all over place in Atlanta with a day pass.
It really does. As in... we know you're not going to be able to resist threatening jurors and will have to forfeit this bond so we'll give you a nice low bond.
“They let you do anything when you’re rich”
So another $200k deducted from his re-election donations then.
Bond is only 10%
Keep in mind, you only have to post 10% to get out, so $20K.
What's $20K to him if he skates?
Isn't the full amount posted by somebody? And if you leave the bondsman can find you and take you to the cops?
Don vs Dog the bounty hunter would be a battle of the bad haircuts
Dog the Bounty Hunter tackling Trump is such an absurdly perfect image. I'll expect to see a New York Times article about it in a month.
Given that we're in the dumbest time line, this is actually a plausible scenario.
Just follow the cheeseburger shortages
Yeah I’d be curious to see what happens if he skips, because he has Secret Service protection for the rest of his life.
The Secret Service has an obligation to protect him, but they’re also federal officers. Would they protect him from the bounty hunters? Would they rat him out? Would they act as the bounty hunters and drag him back to the courthouse against his will?
It also raises questions about a potential conviction. If he gets convicted, will the Secret Service simply post extra guards specifically for his (isolated) prison cell? They’d probably want to try and outsource it to the prison directly, but then you run into the issue of having a person who still has Top Secret clearance and has proven to be irresponsible with it being guarded by people who don’t have that clearance. The Secret Service would probably need to clear several of their members and post them there as guards, simply to prevent Don from blabbing national secrets to anyone who will listen. Basically, limit his contact to only people who also have clearance.
Regardless, I’d pay good money to get a livestream of the bounty hunters taking Don down.
Yes, it's usually 10% if you go to a bail bondsman. And yes, you still owe them if you skip out, and they can hunt you down.
I don't think the secret service would let that happen though.
You mean the same secret service that deleted subpeonaed evidence to protect themselves and trump?
That's "subpoenaed."
It looks just as ridiculous, maybe more.
Why wouldn't the secret service let a bail bondsman carry out the active attest warrant that's sure to follow if he skips.
Why would Trump even need a bail bondsman? He can surely afford to pay his own bail and get it all back, rather than taking the 10% bond as a loss.
I was about to agree, but
Trump never pays for anything up front.
Trump never pays anyone who does a service for him.
Logic and reason do not apply to his behavior.
That's like fucking nothing to the mega rich like Trump.
The fact that we have a two-tiered justice system couldn't be more obvious than a rich white politician getting slapped on the wrist despite leading an insurrection against American democracy while poor black men are killed in the street by militant cops for literally no reason. Gross on so many levels.
That's only if you get a bondsman to pay the rest of it. Knowing trump, anyone in their right mind wouldn't put 180k of their own money down thinkimg the fat idiot won't run his mouth and violate the terms of his bond.
But then again, if they were in their right minds, they wouldn't support him.
I like Presidents who don't have a bail bondsman
I want to see Dog the Bounty Hunter chasing him down.
But I like this ex-president having one :)
I mean, he probably just paid it in cash lol. I don’t think he needed a bondsman. Worst case scenario, send out a fundraising email and he’d have the money in an hour or less
Traitor cunt.
So, what happens if he violates the gag order? Can they lock him up or is just a pithy fine?
He hasn't got in any trouble yet for violating gag orders. I'm not hopeful about justice being served this time around.
I feel like the fact that it's an actual bond condition this time might motivate the judge to actually enforce it, but I understand your pessimism.
If he violates the bond terms, they can throw him right into jail.
Great. Fingers crossed that he's stupid/impulsive enough to do it and the judge actually has the chutzpa to put him in the clink.
The judge has every right to revoke bail and lock him up if he breaks those terms. I'm not betting any money on that actually happening, but if the law were applied equally he'd be denied bail and in prison until trial already.
There's not enough zeros there.
I wonder how long it will take Trump to break parole. It is not a question of if, just a question of when. And then the reaction of the court will most likely show the inequality of the American justice system. Some are handled more equal than others.
The question I have is what if he violates any of the terms? It's not like they're going to throw him in jail with some secret service people guarding him. So it feels more like a show than anything with real force behind it.
If he gets arrested later when he surrenders, beside a mugshot, do they also weigh Trump? Measure his height?
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