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Can Anyone Help Trump Cover His Ass?
Last week, I wrote a story about the company which issued the bond to cover Trump’s ass if he can’t come up with the dough to pay the $464 million he owes New York State for committing bank fraud, a number which keeps increasing every day btw, and I said that his bonding company is another sleaze outfit which may not even be able to operate in New York State.
So today, my eagle-eyed sister sends me a link to another story in Daily Beast which claims, with plenty of backup data, that Trump’s bonding company may not be allowed to post the bonds for Trump because: a) the company isn’t registered to do business in New York State, and b) if they did get registered they don’t seem to have the necessary cash to bail Trump out.
But meanwhile, if you read the really fine print of the bonding agreement, you discover that Trump is still on the hook for the money if he loses his appeal.
So, we have a rather interesting situation here because either Trump knows that this bonding company can’t really help him cover his financial ass, or maybe he doesn’t know that from the bonding company’s point of view, the fix, so to speak, is still in.
Is there a chance that Trump, the master of sleaze, has gotten out-sleazed in this case? Your goddamn right there is, because the one thing which is becoming somewhat obvious about…