Tish James tells Trump to pound sand with fishy surety bond! Judge Aileen fires her cannon.
Trump can't seem to do anything the legal way to save his life!
Karma is a thing, and it’s spelled “Ahhh ha ha ha ha ha!”
Seems I have returned just in time to see Trumpy land flat on his orange tookus again—Night Specialty Insurance Company, owned by Don Hankey, king of the subprime loan, doesn’t have enough money to cover the $175 million Trump needed to stay his case and keep creditor sharks at bay.
Apparently, irony is a thing too…
In a midday court filing, Knight Specialty Insurance Company revealed that it only has about $138 million in surplus. Pssst, hey guys, I think you’re missing a few zeros here. And, oh yeah, the company is not even registered in New York and doesn’t have all its legal ducks in a row to help the Orange Brutha out.
Oopsie!
MeidasTouch, credit where credit is due, does an absolutely stellar dissection of the entire debacle in the video below:
NY Prosecutors CHALLENGE Trump’s INADEQUATE Bond (youtube.com)
In other words, Letitia James might still be able to seize Trump by the ass-sets (I went there) if he doesn’t provide the cash needed to secure his bond as soon as possible. Knight is not out of the water either and could be in financial and legal peril now because, yah know, ETTD.
But, ya’ll, like—who does that?
Who keeps on crime-ing while in the middle of being indicted and investigated—in broad daylight? Who commits even more fraud as their feet are being held to the fire for fraud? Who adds more shit to the pile when, well, you see where I am headed with this—
Trump and Co, that’s who!
Donnie is either stupid, brazen, or a fantastically awful combo of both.
Or maybe, just maybe, Trump has done everything illegitimately his entire life, and he doesn’t even know how to operate on the up and up. Either way, his goose may be cooked.
As per The New Republic:
New York Attorney General Letitia James has some questions about Donald Trump’s $175 million bond insurer—mainly, if it can even guarantee the full amount if push comes to shove.
In a court filing on Thursday, Knight Speciality Insurance Company revealed that its liquid assets don’t meet the needs of Trump’s already minimized bond. According to a financial assessment, the company, owned by billionaire Don Hankey, has just $138 million in “surplus.” Knight would therefore need to spend 127 percent of its reserves in order to cover Trump’s bond—far more than the 10 percent of a state-regulated suretor’s surplus that’s allowed by New York law.
Lawyers for the attorney general’s office also noted that the insurance company was trying to operate “without a certificate of qualification” in the state.
…James’s office has given Trump and his new financial bedfellows 10 days to “justify the surety.”
If they can’t justify the bond, it will go boom-bang-kaput, and Trump will be in for a world of hurt.
Slow clap for the geniuses who thought any of this would get past New York’s law clerks, Barbra Jones or eagle-eyed Tish James. In retort, prepare for MAGA-world to unleash fembot Alina Habba on the populace for a new round of lies and poo-tossing on NewsMax and OANN.
Up next on The Further Adventures of MAGA Minions
Judge Aileen Cannon responded to Jack Smith’s defiant “Bisch, you cray” motion, which called phooey on her decision to ask Trump and the DOJ to file dueling jury instructions that the trier of facts might consider.
As reported previously by MSNBC:
The Trump-appointed judge is on the verge of being appealed in the former president’s classified documents case. She’s apparently contemplating a Trumpian fringe legal theory.
As a refresher, Cannon asked the parties to file proposed jury instructions, regarding the federal charges alleging that Trump illegally retained national defense information. In doing so, she told them to consider two “scenarios,” both of which lend credence to the notion that the Presidential Records Act applies in this case. The problem is that the PRA is irrelevant to these criminal charges. So injecting the issue into the trial could lead the jury to think that Trump could do whatever he wanted with classified documents, which would obviously go against the criminal law that says otherwise.
Jack Smith declared via a court filing that he would under no circumstances comply with her dumb ass order—he was also posied to file a writ of mandamus, an order by a court to a lesser government official to perform an act required by law, which he has refused or neglected to do (Legal Dictionary,) against her.
BREAKING: Trump judge wages war on Jack Smith with STUNNING response (youtube.com)
Smith prodded her to “promptly decide” whether she actually thought her outlandish legal view was correct. “If she does, then Smith wants the chance to appeal her before trial. If she waits until trial to implement this wacky view, then it may be too late.” — MSNBC News
Judge Aileen Cannon's counter-response can be seen in either a negative or positive light, depending on pundit reporting. For instance, Glenn Kirshner and Brian Tyler Cohen reflected on the courtroom game of cat and mouse in an episode of The Legal Breakdown and felt things looked a bit ominous moving forward.
Kirshner believes Judge Cannon is playing a game of kick-the-can by denying Trump’s motion to throw out the case based on the Presidential Records Act, with the full intention of acquitting The Diaper Don much later. See, the Presidential Records Act doesn’t even apply to a case with 32 counts of espionage, so her gesture is empty. It would be like denying a motion about laws that apply to “magical unicorns,” Glenn joked.
In other words, her decision is based on nothing of actual substance and is just showboating and handwaving.
Cannon called Jack Smith's declaration to potentially appeal her order“unprecedented and unjust,” telling him to file an appeal if he must, pretty much double-dog daring him to make a move.
On the Flipside
Meidas Touch saw this as bad news for Trump Co., despite Cannon's clear desire to help Trump attain acquittal so she can reign as queen of all MAGA world. To MTNs’s credit, they did acknowledge Cannon’s cryptic and nefarious response to Smith’s filing, establishing how she played victim and acted put out by Jack Smith’s potential appellate challenge.
Ben Meiselas also picked apart the language Cannon used in her decision. She asserted there was not a pre-trial basis for dismissing the case based on anything related to the Presidential Records Act, slyly revealing she might re-introduce the idea after the trial starts and double jeopardy attaches.
Ben aptly points out that Jack has the Bedminster, New Jersey document trial up his sleeve, but if Cannon pulls a fast one, it could be a case of too little too late.
Such a move would ultimately hand MAGA a win, as these delays will not allow Americans to access all info needed to make an informed decision on who to vote for before the election.
Judge Cannon Issues SHOCKING ORDER that is BAD NEWS for Trump (youtube.com)
Democracy hangs on by a thread as bullies and haters try their best to hijack a nation—sometimes it feels like Nero is fiddling on a roof somewhere and roasting a hot dog on a stick between acts.
Our only power right now is our voice and our vote—Blue, no matter who.
I’m not gonna sleep tonight am I? 😳. I should know better than to read your column before bedtime! Damn girl 😂😂😂😂😂😂
OH MY GAAAAAAAAAWD!!! Can you even believe the nerve???? We should absolutely believe it after all that’s gone down but to normal people this is still mind-boggling. Operating this far outside the rules…and law in this case…so consistently - over and over and over…it’s just crazy!! Is anyone - anyone - going to ever say “enough is enough”? If it ever will happen it will happen in New York. I’m so happy they were smart enough to really check this thing and not just accept it at face value. Like the jingle says…🎶 I love New York 🎶