Who thinks Trump has the bond money?

[LiberalFighter]

Morning Joe has Caroline Polisi saying he has it. Then why hasn't he already paid it. Why is he fighting it?

They are suggesting he will file for bankruptcy. Yet he could pay the bond money?

[Walleye]

1. Trump is a drama queen, he gets off on everybody speculating about him

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Agreed. My guess is that he's had the money but is waiting for the big drama

moment in court when he hands it over.

[Scrivener7]

5. This. He's waiting until the last possible minute.

If he didn't have the money, he'd have been holed up throwing ketchup at the wall all weekend, not out cheating at golf.

[LiberalFighter]

4. That might work if the bond money doesn't increase each day.

Companies are not going to give him the money without financial benefit.

I should also add that they now know he is a financial risk when the charges are based on bank/financial fraud. How much more will it cost Trump if they approve it compared to a low risk bond? And the likelihood that Trump fails to repay they will have to go thru seizing his properties to get their money back.

Also, I'm sure Letitia James would love for Trump to come up with the money so she doesn't have to do the work of seizing the properties.

[Happy Hoosier]

13. Maybe, but keep in mind....

... that once he hands over that half-billion dollars, it's gone.

TBH, I doubt he has that much liquid cash. The court's monitor should know. I think all his properties are already leveraed to the hilt and even if he DOES have cash-on-hand, he probably needs to: 1) Fund his ridculous lifestyle, and 2) Pay debt payments. He kites loans to fund his living expenses (lots of rich people do to take advantage of tax benefits). He doesn't have money just sitting around. Anything he has already has someone else's name on it.

[Wednesdays]

14. That, and

every dollar spent on Smelvis' legal bills is a dollar that's not spent on something else...such as his or any other Republican's political campaigns.

[Walleye]

16. I think you're probably right, but I don't think he believes that. He thinks somebody's going to save his ass

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. The longer he holds on to any money, the wealthier he thinks he is.

When it is money from his pile(so to speak), he would rather spend someone else's instead.

Hie entire EGO is wrapped up in money, property, and other assets. The term PAPER RICH, MONEY POOR comes to play here. A blow to his EGO, with the choices he has before him, are not good choices. Nor does his holding out and the "I TOLD YOU SO" game does him no favors as well. In the short term with his base perhaps, but not in the long run.

To understand TSF, we have to THINK like him.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. He's milked the whining for all he can get from it. He's had the cash all along.

[Voltaire2]

7. Bankruptcy can't avoid paying the fine.

There is no advantage as far as this case is concerned in filing for bankruptcy.

[sop]

8. When has Trump ever paid what he owes on time, or at all?

[gab13by13]

9. Define "Trump has"

Someone gave Trump the money and we will never know who. Trump can then claim the money was his.

[BigmanPigman]

10. I have the feeling that he spent 3 hours practicing his

"I am a mean motherfucker, so don't mess with me" look in his mirror as well as puffing his big, fat chest out. It is all a great, big tRump show and he is relishing the attention.

Correction...they just showed a photo of tRump in the courtroom right now and his hair is flat amd messy and he looks even shittier than usual. Yeah!

[Emile]

11. It's up to Putin.

[BlueKota]

12. Isn't the time already up? I thought it expired as soon as it hit midnight

between Sunday and Monday?

[kentuck]

15. I think he is shopping for a Judge that will temporarily stop the process for him...

That will rule that the process is somehow "unfair" to him.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. He asbolutely has it

He won't pay it because it's in his DNA to be greedy and never pay his bills. He's trying to get someone else to pay it for him.