Comment on Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months agoI mean its not like the court wont know where the bond is coming from.
If he could get away with some shit like that he would have already tried.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Because if there’s something the mob is bad at, it’s money laundering.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean you can be as cynical as you like, but before now, Trump did not have a court appointed (the judge in this case) monitor reviewing his financial transactions.
Its one thing to do money laundering and get away with it. Its another thing to effectively having been caught for money laundering, to do so under the observation of someone assigned to monitor you because you got caught. Trumps ability to do shady shit to get this bond is severely curtailed; its just a fact.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
That’s a fair point, although I do wonder whether state actors – ie. Russia – could have ways of getting around that. It’s not like the transaction has to be directly to Trump, but to some front organization and of course laundered in dl r way
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Like I said, if he could get away with a shady deal here, he would. If you gonna pick cynicism as a worldview, gotta commit fully. I think there is nothing he wouldn’t do if he thought it was even possible for him to get away with it. The fact he hasn’t already dome something like that tells me he knows its not possible.