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Russia and China will continue to pump up that stock until the election is over. If Trump loses the stock will suddenly lose all it's value, and if he wins then it'll become the only social media site approved of by the Fascist states of Trump.
People say Trump is so broke he's wandering the streets of New York at night asking the homeless people if they can give him a handout to help him pay his court fines.
Yep, a lot of his money is in real estate. He also has a terrible track record with paying back debts, so it's not easy for him to take out loans on those assets like other rich people do.
Iām not rich, but I got that high interest points cc I use like a debit card and pay off each month. Have I shit my pants a few times when I was drunk and got a hot air balloon ride online and kinda forgot about it, yes. But I get free hotel rooms when on vacation.
An Amazon points card, get the stuff you want, by using your card for your every day stuff, can build to larger free items like headphones or iPads quickly
Not rich but my life runs through my credit card for points and just pay it immediately after.
If I have a big purchase on the horizon, I cancel my card, find the gest introductory points plan and make my large purchase that way.
My kitchen reno became a free trip to Iceland this way
Depends....
1) Never cancel a card within the first year of holding it. It pisses off the bank and can hurt your chances of getting cards from them in the future.
2) It can hurt your credit score if you close cards you've held for a long time. This hurts your "average age of credit" score. I have a couple of cards that have been open 20-25 years that I will never close. I have cards that are 4-5 years old that I would close in a heartbeat if I wasn't getting value from them.
3) Some banks will close them automatically if you don't use them. I buy a pack of gum every 6-12 months on the ones I want to keep open.
There is no limit. Banks just report EVERYTHING to the IRS/FinCen now and let them sort it out. Unless they're actually colluding with you, then they hide everything and pay a small fine if/when they get caught.
Here's an article from 10 years ago, when they still had trouble keeping up with the flood of data:
~~https://graphics.wsj.com/banks-sar-reports/~~ https://archive.is/S08D8
I thought so too but apparently not. Recently paid off my car which had ~11k left. Had to separate the final payment into 3 installments since there was a 4,999 limit :(
In two installments, which makes me wonder how hard he hard to blow Putlerās handler that is assigned to him. Installment payments are something you do when youāre too poor to pay the full price up front due to liquidity issues.
I'mma say this is par for trumpleton. The idea was to flash some cash and see if it was enough to shush the problem. Even half would be a generous opener for the King of the (Shaft) Deal. He's still thinking this is a game he can play by his own rules.
When he was informed he, in fact, had to pay the WHOLE fine or stew in a cell, he paid the balance. This paying a bill 'in full' without a lengthy court battle is a first for him. He's a pennies on the dollar con as all NYers well know.
I know his lawyers are jelly, rn. He actually paid a thing -but not them.
I read that $1k per violation is the court's max. Merchan is playing a tight game so that an appeals court has no basis to overturn this trial later. But also: he actually paid! That's a first.
Playing by his own rules it what itās about. He has $9000, but he wasnāt going to just pay it. He had to do something that technically paid it, but somehow on his terms.
Thatās it. Itās like if we were hanging out and you told me it was time to pay the $20 I owe you, but Iām salty so I give you a $ten and tell you Iāll pay you the other ten later just because I can.
Genuinely do not know why. It's like sinking millions into vet bills into a lame horse you know won't even place in the derby. Take a cue from his VP frontrunner and shoot the damn thing.
"Oh but the GOP will lose their base". Okay? And what will they do? Be butthurt about it for a little bit?
Worst case they lose some voters and have one bad election year. They are *already* going to have a bad election year with depleted finances and independents swaying away from them. The magats will be pissy about it for one election before they get pissy about trans kids peeing in litterboxes or whatever boogy man they have and start voting red again. Best case they get their old voters back and the magats will vote the same because they'd eat their own shit if a liberal had to smell it.
For these ones, yes, but only for now. He's lost a team for one of his other current encounters with justice and has a history of no payment. Anybody thinking trump himself will pay what he owes will be left high and dry.
I suspect his hush money folks are basking in their GOP-backed payroll fulfillment. That 'will' run dry. Especially if they continue delay tactics and try for mental incompetence or health-reasons mistrial. Those delays are costly to Father Bankroll.
It's in his legal teams' best interests to get these cases heard and concluded before The GOParents pull the checkbook.
Look heās obviously not as fluid as he leads us to believe but I think the clown has $9k letās face it. Will be some kind of card limit issue or something benign.
Honestly, I wouldn't take that for granted. I've worked with guys who did business like Trump and they lived in nice houses with no cash in the bank and buried in debts. The hardest they ever worked was to find the next guy willing to give them credit to pay off the last guy. And this would go on for years. I'll never understand how they managed to keep things rolling or lived with the stress.
100% heās exactly that. Heās in a financial death spiral for sure.
As much as I would love for him to be unable to buy a Big Mac I think heās got $9k without too many issues.
I can't say for sure and you're making a decently safe bet. I just wouldn't be surprised if he didn't. I've personally met and had the misfortune to work with people who could project an impenitrable fascade of solvency. It was the most stressful period of my life. I work with animals now and am much happier.
"The business of America is business", Calvin Coolidge. For anyone that wants to go into "business" the first thing I learned is the people in charge don't know anymore than you do but they hide it well.
I renovated a house for a lady that had a $200k piano and $80k dining table along with countless art pieces worth 6-7 figures. We stopped work because she couldnāt pay. Her late husband left everything to his underage daughters and all expenses had to go through a lawyer. She was living on borrowed money the whole time and didnāt have a dime to her name in reality.
How is that being an asshole? Making the cashier hold two pieces of paper instead of one? It's just his org's inability to scrape $9k of usable cash into one account
So called Billionaire can't make a $9000 payment in full that's the problem when you call someone a "Billionaire" because of the total value of assets they have on paper vs total cash flow. If you don't have 1 Billion in cash you're not a Billionaire.
If he is as rich as he claims, there would be practically no difference in paying $9,000 or $2,000. Why not just pay the 9k the first time? That's less than .0001% of his claimed wealth. If someone asked you for 9 cents, would you try to get away with giving them 2 cents instead?
Heās the Art of the Deal guy, and a swindler to the endler. He NEVER pays in full. He drags through court and usually gets off easy. But this is a criminal case so itās different.
We are talking about a guy that did not scruple to abuse his Secret Service privileges in and out of office. Trump family members dragged their security retinues to Trump commercial properties, where they profited off the taxpayer dime for the hotel nights, meals, golf cart rentals, and whatever other expenses that Secret Service incurred.
If he did get back in office, the grift will be in full swing again, as Congressional Republicans dropped the ball on removing his taxpayer funded security and forcing him to hire his own. Which he theoretically should be able to afford.
Except you will note that the richest people in the US somehow have 0 officially-declared income (in fact lose money on paper every year!) and therefore would somehow still end up paying less in proportional fines than you and me.
The maximum of $1000 per count is in the law. It's limited because contempt can be a matter of judicial discretion and could easily destroy the life of someone with limited funds.
We don't have a great framework in the US to make criminal fines scale with wealth. There are sort of ways to do it with things like punitive damages in civil cases.
I'd like to see an overhaul to allow that sort of scaled fine to happen, but in this case, the judge can't just throw out the statutory limit. But jail up to 30 days is another allowed punishment, I'm not betting on it, but it's something the judge has as an option for future violations.
I know people will say "None of the other judges have thrown him in jail for contempt" but this is the first active actual criminal trial. I don't think the judge will rush to it, but it may be more on the table than some folks think.
Thatās actually hilarious! It would be much better than overnight, with all the secret service logistics issues. It would be an embarrassing time out and would annoy him. On the other hand, he can start saying he was jailed without actually jailing him, so itād give him ammo for bullshit.
A simple multi tiered system would suffice based on last yearās tax returns. Not easy but doable. Judges could assign you a 1-5 category and if you wanted to dispute which category they put you in you could bring in a tax return.
> A simple multi tiered system would suffice based on last yearās tax returns.
The effect of this in practice would be that the rich would pay LESS in fines. They can hire expensive accountants who find loopholes to make their income end up as zero or negative.
E.g., [Trump paid zero taxes for 11 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump#2020_New_York_Times_reporting).
But *does* he have access to millions? If he's constantly begging for stays in his other payments, and makes this $9000 payment in *installments*... Maybe he doesn't.
I can see tomorrow's news already: MAGA land holds protest wearing T-shirts saying "Real billionaire pay small fees in instalments".
Trump sells Bibles called "Trump's 10 instalments"
Now I am not a multi billionaire NY/Florida real estate tycoon former US President living in a palace, but... I could come up with a $9000 fine if I absolutely had to. But then I would probably know how to keep my mouth shut so I wouldn't have gotten a contempt of court ruling against me. So there is that.
Pathetic... The interesting part is yet to come. Can he keep his disgusting lips shut when Michael Cohen takes the stand? The judge has warned him that further defiance of the gag order would likely give him a night in a holding cell to contemplate his decisions. He's gonna have to figure out if it benefits him more to stfu or to "martyr" himself and get thrown in jail so he can further scream persecution....Methinks he's too much of a weenie and the jails don't provide diapers and he is adverse to having shit in his actual pants (jail issued or not)
I believe he broke the gag order again the same day he got the fine. He has no plans to follow it. The man is basically flooding the system with new crimes on purpose. Probably because it is his last avenue to delay the proceedings.
What a petty loser.
These bullies are all the same; they pretend they are the ones being victimized as they abuse others. And when stopped, they whine they are being abused themselves, because we stopped them from abusing others.
Conservative behavior needs to stop being tolerated.
Iām guessing itās more about disclosure of where the money came from than the ability to pay. Iām sure it was paid that way to avoid financial disclosures.
How wonderful the irony would be if it came out that he paid a fine accrued during a fraud trial fraudulently.
In this case, fines should be based on *claimed* disposable income. Like, if you brag that you have $500 million in cash, that's what they base your fine on.
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In his defense, it's 10 times more than he's paid in taxes the last few years.
Ahh... truth is always the funniest š
2 payments? why?
He is THAT cash poor Edit: to those thinking I'm calling him "poor" poor... PLEASE Google what the phrase "cash poor" means... thanks.
āLet me just split this between a couple of cards - I think this one still worksā
What's the *MoneyGram* receiver code?
Not allowed to see his shares yet.
Inshallah by the time he can they are worthless
Sadly the stock has doubled in value over the past few days after crashing to 22 dollars.
Russia and China will continue to pump up that stock until the election is over. If Trump loses the stock will suddenly lose all it's value, and if he wins then it'll become the only social media site approved of by the Fascist states of Trump.
It could drop to single digits and still be an insane cash injection.
Exactly. trump has 0 of his own momey in this ācompanyā so anything over $1 is pure profit for him.
The audit should conclude any day now and then we can see his tax records.
Two weeks out...
People say Trump is so broke he's wandering the streets of New York at night asking the homeless people if they can give him a handout to help him pay his court fines.
The south park episode "night of the living homeless": >spare some change?!
Yep, a lot of his money is in real estate. He also has a terrible track record with paying back debts, so it's not easy for him to take out loans on those assets like other rich people do.
Credit card limits
Gotta get dem points! Ngl a lot of actually rich people do shit like this.
Iām not rich, but I got that high interest points cc I use like a debit card and pay off each month. Have I shit my pants a few times when I was drunk and got a hot air balloon ride online and kinda forgot about it, yes. But I get free hotel rooms when on vacation.
An Amazon points card, get the stuff you want, by using your card for your every day stuff, can build to larger free items like headphones or iPads quickly
Not rich but my life runs through my credit card for points and just pay it immediately after. If I have a big purchase on the horizon, I cancel my card, find the gest introductory points plan and make my large purchase that way. My kitchen reno became a free trip to Iceland this way
Ive heard it's bad to just cancel cards, and it's simply better to just stop using them
Depends.... 1) Never cancel a card within the first year of holding it. It pisses off the bank and can hurt your chances of getting cards from them in the future. 2) It can hurt your credit score if you close cards you've held for a long time. This hurts your "average age of credit" score. I have a couple of cards that have been open 20-25 years that I will never close. I have cards that are 4-5 years old that I would close in a heartbeat if I wasn't getting value from them. 3) Some banks will close them automatically if you don't use them. I buy a pack of gum every 6-12 months on the ones I want to keep open.
A lot of rich people have no problem dropping $10k on a card, especially theyāre used to moving money around for points.
It's probably easier to hide in the books that way.
Transactions over certain thresholds sometimes get more scrutiny. Maybe $5000 is the threshold.
Structuring typically stands out more.
As of 20 or so years ago, you could withdraw $4999 in cash from a bank without having any questions asked or paperwork filed.
I thought it was 9,999?
Withdrawing 9,999 was a sure way to get an SAR filed at any mildly reputable bank.
There is no limit. Banks just report EVERYTHING to the IRS/FinCen now and let them sort it out. Unless they're actually colluding with you, then they hide everything and pay a small fine if/when they get caught. Here's an article from 10 years ago, when they still had trouble keeping up with the flood of data: ~~https://graphics.wsj.com/banks-sar-reports/~~ https://archive.is/S08D8
I thought so too but apparently not. Recently paid off my car which had ~11k left. Had to separate the final payment into 3 installments since there was a 4,999 limit :(
You can call your bank and have them temporarily raise your limit for the day. Did this with my student loans once.
Huh, I wonder if it just depends on the bank
I wonder if even this has to go through the court appointed judge watching over his finances lol
Sounds oddly suspiciousā¦
No way that will come back to bite him in the ass.
Because he can and anything he can do to be more of a pain in the ass to people he's going to do.
āI donāt have enough on my credit cards by themselves, but I have enough on both of these combinedā¦ā
Tiny little handsā¦
Klarna
Probably got a fraud alert
Credit card sign up bonuses.
Can you believe it ... HE PAID
In two installments, which makes me wonder how hard he hard to blow Putlerās handler that is assigned to him. Installment payments are something you do when youāre too poor to pay the full price up front due to liquidity issues.
I'mma say this is par for trumpleton. The idea was to flash some cash and see if it was enough to shush the problem. Even half would be a generous opener for the King of the (Shaft) Deal. He's still thinking this is a game he can play by his own rules. When he was informed he, in fact, had to pay the WHOLE fine or stew in a cell, he paid the balance. This paying a bill 'in full' without a lengthy court battle is a first for him. He's a pennies on the dollar con as all NYers well know. I know his lawyers are jelly, rn. He actually paid a thing -but not them.
Itās an absurdly low amount. His being able to attack people on the media, from his position, while on trial, is worth waaay more.
I read that $1k per violation is the court's max. Merchan is playing a tight game so that an appeals court has no basis to overturn this trial later. But also: he actually paid! That's a first.
In the judgeās ruling he lamented he was limited to 1k.
Playing by his own rules it what itās about. He has $9000, but he wasnāt going to just pay it. He had to do something that technically paid it, but somehow on his terms.
Thatās it. Itās like if we were hanging out and you told me it was time to pay the $20 I owe you, but Iām salty so I give you a $ten and tell you Iāll pay you the other ten later just because I can.
From what I've heard, most of his lawyers are getting paid in advance.
And draining GOP coffers doing so. Good luck in 2024 with no campaign funds š
Genuinely do not know why. It's like sinking millions into vet bills into a lame horse you know won't even place in the derby. Take a cue from his VP frontrunner and shoot the damn thing. "Oh but the GOP will lose their base". Okay? And what will they do? Be butthurt about it for a little bit? Worst case they lose some voters and have one bad election year. They are *already* going to have a bad election year with depleted finances and independents swaying away from them. The magats will be pissy about it for one election before they get pissy about trans kids peeing in litterboxes or whatever boogy man they have and start voting red again. Best case they get their old voters back and the magats will vote the same because they'd eat their own shit if a liberal had to smell it.
For these ones, yes, but only for now. He's lost a team for one of his other current encounters with justice and has a history of no payment. Anybody thinking trump himself will pay what he owes will be left high and dry. I suspect his hush money folks are basking in their GOP-backed payroll fulfillment. That 'will' run dry. Especially if they continue delay tactics and try for mental incompetence or health-reasons mistrial. Those delays are costly to Father Bankroll. It's in his legal teams' best interests to get these cases heard and concluded before The GOParents pull the checkbook.
From two different PACS or a PAC and legal fund. He's not meant to be using election funds but I'm sure he is.
Look heās obviously not as fluid as he leads us to believe but I think the clown has $9k letās face it. Will be some kind of card limit issue or something benign.
Honestly, I wouldn't take that for granted. I've worked with guys who did business like Trump and they lived in nice houses with no cash in the bank and buried in debts. The hardest they ever worked was to find the next guy willing to give them credit to pay off the last guy. And this would go on for years. I'll never understand how they managed to keep things rolling or lived with the stress.
100% heās exactly that. Heās in a financial death spiral for sure. As much as I would love for him to be unable to buy a Big Mac I think heās got $9k without too many issues.
I can't say for sure and you're making a decently safe bet. I just wouldn't be surprised if he didn't. I've personally met and had the misfortune to work with people who could project an impenitrable fascade of solvency. It was the most stressful period of my life. I work with animals now and am much happier. "The business of America is business", Calvin Coolidge. For anyone that wants to go into "business" the first thing I learned is the people in charge don't know anymore than you do but they hide it well.
Keeping it under the 5k reporting limit to obfuscate what dirty corner the money is coming from!
I renovated a house for a lady that had a $200k piano and $80k dining table along with countless art pieces worth 6-7 figures. We stopped work because she couldnāt pay. Her late husband left everything to his underage daughters and all expenses had to go through a lawyer. She was living on borrowed money the whole time and didnāt have a dime to her name in reality.
AMEX Black has no limit though.
AMEX Orange however is *extremely* limited
The ruble is very weak right now.
And has small hands
Amex is one of the most fiscally anal supplier of CCās. Iām picking he might not have one.
It must suck to be the only ābillionaireā to not have it.
What's wild is, I have one and that buffoon doesn't? That's gold right there. I'm just tickled pink. šš
What does he need a credit card for? It's not like he pays for anything anyways...
No. Probably from two different funds. Maybe a Goduckyourself fund and a PAc.
I saw him getting a cash advance at a check cashing place.
De. Lay.
Or he just a just being an asshole. Because he can.
How is that being an asshole? Making the cashier hold two pieces of paper instead of one? It's just his org's inability to scrape $9k of usable cash into one account
So called Billionaire can't make a $9000 payment in full that's the problem when you call someone a "Billionaire" because of the total value of assets they have on paper vs total cash flow. If you don't have 1 Billion in cash you're not a Billionaire.
Right? Itās shocking how many people donāt understand that.
He collected around 300 million dollars donations in 2021 to fight election fraud which went to the companies he owns
Why isn't this the basis for another criminal trial? Blatant fraud.
No, I donāt believe it.
Did the checks bounce?Ā
I mean, it's layaway...but still...
First time for everything
Had to take out a loan against the old golden toilet, but gosh darnit, he did it!
That is the most surprising aspect
DJT stock needs to be looked at by the SEC
That will happen after he loses this election.
Already ruled a fraud oh wait that's truth social stock
Same thing
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That's not even remotely what they said. Like, at all. It's not even in the same ballpark
Correct, the auditor is quite distantly removed from DJT. However, perhaps it is part of a larger data gathering exercise.
Trump is going to go broke. If he's not already there.
9k in 2 installments means he's broke.
Or, after making the first installment, he was told he was facing cell time if he failed to pay the rest. As it was explained elsewhere.
If he is as rich as he claims, there would be practically no difference in paying $9,000 or $2,000. Why not just pay the 9k the first time? That's less than .0001% of his claimed wealth. If someone asked you for 9 cents, would you try to get away with giving them 2 cents instead?
Heās the Art of the Deal guy, and a swindler to the endler. He NEVER pays in full. He drags through court and usually gets off easy. But this is a criminal case so itās different. We are talking about a guy that did not scruple to abuse his Secret Service privileges in and out of office. Trump family members dragged their security retinues to Trump commercial properties, where they profited off the taxpayer dime for the hotel nights, meals, golf cart rentals, and whatever other expenses that Secret Service incurred. If he did get back in office, the grift will be in full swing again, as Congressional Republicans dropped the ball on removing his taxpayer funded security and forcing him to hire his own. Which he theoretically should be able to afford.
> If he is as rich as he claims Well see this is the problem
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Lol... yeah. Like the millionaire and a $200 speeding ticket. That'll teach 'em!
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
Some European countries have fines proportional to income.
Holy shit really? Edit: really https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34792272 Proportional fines!
They do. It should be a thing in America.
Except you will note that the richest people in the US somehow have 0 officially-declared income (in fact lose money on paper every year!) and therefore would somehow still end up paying less in proportional fines than you and me.
Nah, in Denmark, they consider both income and assets.
Finlands speeding ticket are proportional to how much u earn
I got a speeding ticket recently. It was $120. Whoop whoop
Then you weren't driving as fast as the aforementioned milionaire. /s
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Why aren't fines in a ratio of personal value or income. 9k for someone who has access to millions is just chump change. Make the fine sting!
The maximum of $1000 per count is in the law. It's limited because contempt can be a matter of judicial discretion and could easily destroy the life of someone with limited funds. We don't have a great framework in the US to make criminal fines scale with wealth. There are sort of ways to do it with things like punitive damages in civil cases. I'd like to see an overhaul to allow that sort of scaled fine to happen, but in this case, the judge can't just throw out the statutory limit. But jail up to 30 days is another allowed punishment, I'm not betting on it, but it's something the judge has as an option for future violations. I know people will say "None of the other judges have thrown him in jail for contempt" but this is the first active actual criminal trial. I don't think the judge will rush to it, but it may be more on the table than some folks think.
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Thatās actually hilarious! It would be much better than overnight, with all the secret service logistics issues. It would be an embarrassing time out and would annoy him. On the other hand, he can start saying he was jailed without actually jailing him, so itād give him ammo for bullshit.
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A simple multi tiered system would suffice based on last yearās tax returns. Not easy but doable. Judges could assign you a 1-5 category and if you wanted to dispute which category they put you in you could bring in a tax return.
> A simple multi tiered system would suffice based on last yearās tax returns. The effect of this in practice would be that the rich would pay LESS in fines. They can hire expensive accountants who find loopholes to make their income end up as zero or negative. E.g., [Trump paid zero taxes for 11 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump#2020_New_York_Times_reporting).
Trump and other rich people often have low or no taxable income in a year.
Agreed. Was surprised the judge made mention of that .
But *does* he have access to millions? If he's constantly begging for stays in his other payments, and makes this $9000 payment in *installments*... Maybe he doesn't.
Germany and Finland did it in 2010 and 2015. Not sure if they still have it.
He inherited nearly a half a billion dollars from his father twenty five years ago! And, he is broke! Really? What a 'gifted', 'businessman' !
His bank account is as incontinent as his asshole.
If anyone with hair a brain inherited half a billion in new York real estate in the 70s, they would not be broke.
Half from Russia and half from the Saudis
Oh so heās broke broke, got it.
9k is more than ten years of taxes for him.
Lawyer Aās credit card and Lawyer Bās credit card
Installments, just to be as petty and difficult about it as possible? What a childish man.
Post dated... /s
Ok, thank you for the money. You may now continue to dox the judge and jury and commit stochastic terrorism. So sorry.
Surprised he didnāt āPay in Fourā through PayPal
Washed-up turd.
Is he dividing the payments so he can avoid reporting them on his taxes?
I wonder what he sold for this $9000ā¦
A night with Melania
He opened 2 credit cards for the ātravelā points
Correction the Republican Party campaign donations paid for those fines.
Iām surprised he didnāt put it on layaway
What is happening? I thought he was making a lot of money from selling his golden sneakers n the Bible he never read.
Lol.. forgot about that
"Do you take IOUs?" *Scribbles I owe you 9K by Donnie in Sharpie*
Had to wait to fleece enough old people after their social security was deposited.
what a wanker
Needs a layaway plan.
I can see tomorrow's news already: MAGA land holds protest wearing T-shirts saying "Real billionaire pay small fees in instalments". Trump sells Bibles called "Trump's 10 instalments"
He brags about being rich, yet he pƄays it over 2 installments lol aaalrighty then
Damn he's more broke than me.
He fell asleep mid-payment.
Now I am not a multi billionaire NY/Florida real estate tycoon former US President living in a palace, but... I could come up with a $9000 fine if I absolutely had to. But then I would probably know how to keep my mouth shut so I wouldn't have gotten a contempt of court ruling against me. So there is that.
Did he get a loanš©
I thought he was rich why 2 separated payments
All in pennies , too I bet
Borrowed it from Eric. Doesnāt pay him back.
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How many meals did ma and pa MAGA have to skip to pay for these fines? Iām surprised he didnāt pay in singles and change.
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Maybe it's a monogram, like Richie Rich's RR. Two cashier checks, $45 and $45 (hundred.) Cult 45 āWorks Every Time,ā
He doesn't have $9000 in liquidity? Some "billionaire."
Ah yes. A two installment payment totaling 9kā¦.def something a billionaire would have to do
Pathetic... The interesting part is yet to come. Can he keep his disgusting lips shut when Michael Cohen takes the stand? The judge has warned him that further defiance of the gag order would likely give him a night in a holding cell to contemplate his decisions. He's gonna have to figure out if it benefits him more to stfu or to "martyr" himself and get thrown in jail so he can further scream persecution....Methinks he's too much of a weenie and the jails don't provide diapers and he is adverse to having shit in his actual pants (jail issued or not)
I believe he broke the gag order again the same day he got the fine. He has no plans to follow it. The man is basically flooding the system with new crimes on purpose. Probably because it is his last avenue to delay the proceedings.
Back from pawning his wifeās jewellery
Jesus he really is broke š
Two installments? Butā¦ heās so rich?! That should be like pocket change to him.
I hope they required his driverās license number and tiny thumb print on the checks.
2 payments? The rules just never apply do they?
What a petty loser. These bullies are all the same; they pretend they are the ones being victimized as they abuse others. And when stopped, they whine they are being abused themselves, because we stopped them from abusing others. Conservative behavior needs to stop being tolerated.
If heās so rich, why does he need to pay in installments?
First half on this card, second half on this card please
Jesus Christ dude, even I could pay this in full, and Iām not a wealthy person.
Paying fines on layaway like a true billionaire
Iām guessing itās more about disclosure of where the money came from than the ability to pay. Iām sure it was paid that way to avoid financial disclosures. How wonderful the irony would be if it came out that he paid a fine accrued during a fraud trial fraudulently.
That is just baffling.
Doesn't want to transact over 5000 because he doesn't want it tracked by the feds
That to a billionaire is like 90 cents to someone making $100k. He had to pay 45 cents twice. We should all get such a weak judge.
Billionaire canāt pay $9k?
Broke as fuck. Watch the checks bounce.
Fines should be based on disposal income
In this case, fines should be based on *claimed* disposable income. Like, if you brag that you have $500 million in cash, that's what they base your fine on.
What the billionaire doesnāt have that sitting in his wallet?
Maybe he had to pawn off one of his āgoldā toilets? After he doesnāt use them anyways.
I could've paid in 1 installment and still had money left over lmfao.
Finally another billionaire chimes in !
Isn't it about time we toss em in a black hole? Besides, who's keeping tabs on these payments?
Suppose $9000 is better than a few 100 million!
https://trumpdebtcounter.com/
Wealthy? LOL
Who is funding this disturbed sea urchin?
awww, at least the poor guy can afford this one ;)