“Any foreign adversary seeking to buy a President knows the price,” warns Rep. Sean Casten

A Democrat who sits on the House Financial Services Committee warned that former President Donald Trump’s inability to secure a bond for his $464 million fraud judgment makes him a “massive national security risk.”

Trump’s lawyers in a filing on Monday told a New York appeals court that he cannot secure a bond after approaching 30 underwriters.

“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” the attorneys wrote.

The filing quoted an insurance broker who signed an affidavit stating that securing the bond is a “practical impossibility.”

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      this is past tense, isn’t it? like, he doesn’t ave more secrets to sell, and he’s sold the ones he already had…

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        Unless he ends up in the white house again…then plenty more secrets to sell!

        I can’t believe that’s actually a possibility…

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          I can’t believe that’s actually a possibility…

          me neither. I really want to wake up and find out the last 8 years have been one long, fucked up dream.

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          As the GOP nominee he will begin to receive some intelligence briefings even before the elections, as early as July. It was recently reported that the White House, caught in a “damned if you damned if you don’t scenario” that is synonymous with Trump, sided to go with tradition & allow Trump access to these, even while he fights a classified documents mishandling case in court. This wouldn’t make any sense in a Jack Ryan novel & yet …