The Monday deadline is fasting approaching for Trump to post the bond to cover the $464 million judgment in the civil fraud trial in New York. If his legal maneuvering to delay or reduce the amount of this bond is not successful and he miraculously produces the money, it will immediately beg the question, “Where did the money come from?” As I and others have argued recently, a man like Trump who is in desperate financial straits is an extremely vulnerable person who is subject to being bought.
When his crack legal counsel, Alina Habba, was asked recently on Fox News if he could possibly get money from the Saudis or the Russians, she did not really give an answer. She kind of tap danced around what should be an easy ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question. The correct legal answer is ‘no’ or ‘absolutely not’ but instead, she tap danced. Never a good sign but then again, we should all take whatever Alina Habba says with a large grain of salt.
Even if Trump were to get the money from one or more domestic supporters, if anyone believes such a hefty sum of money would come without any strings attached is being extremely naïve. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Trump will sell his soul and the soul of America to anyone who can help him salvage his beloved real estate holdings. As always, Trump will put Trump first before any other consideration. It will be most interesting to see how Trump wiggles free – or not – from this latest self-inflicted mess.
Many CEOs of major corporations throughout history have been faced with having to make tough decisions when their companies have fallen on challenging times for one reason or another. Sometimes these decisions have involved selling off various parts of a company, filing for bankruptcy, or engaging in major layoffs to try to maintain the long-term viability of the company. Trump is incapable of making these types of objective, rational decisions which is just another reason he should not be in the White House.
Trump makes decision based upon emotions, greed, and self-interest. If he were truly the businessman he has always purported to be, he would sit down with his legal team, financial advisers, look at his portfolio of assets and figure out the best way to leverage or sell those assets to be able to move forward. That is what a true leader or businessman would do. Instead, he will continue to play the victim ‘poor me’ card and wait for someone to come bail him out the same way his father bailed him out from more than one of his failed business ventures.
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I would suggest that anyone or any group of people who come riding in to bail Trump out of this latest mess, are truly insane. Trump will fail again, and again, and again. It is a well-documented pattern. Really wealthy people generally want a healthy return on their investments. Surely there must be better investments in the GOP universe of people than Donald J. Trump.
So, stand by. Let’s see who Trump’s ‘daddy’ will come to rescue him from yet another failure of his own making.
