Donald Trump the corrupt piece of shit failure businessman and Donald Trump the corrupt piece of shit failure politician are both very much seriously fucked when it comes to money these days.
On the business side, barring a reprieve from the courts, as of Tuesday Trump has just six days until both his option for an appeal is closed off and New York State Attorney General Letitia James can begin collecting the $464 million the fat fuck owes for his fraud. No fewer than 30 potential suretors turned him down for the bond – including the scumbags at Chubb who covered the $91 million for the EJ Carroll defamation case. Reportedly they were the only ones who even entertained it and only with real estate put up as collateral, a condition rapey Donald obviously balked at.
“Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision. In other words, he is trying to take my Appellate Rights away from me when I have already won at the Appellate Division, but he refuses to accept their already made decision. Nobody has ever heard of anything like this before. I would be forced to mortgage or sell Great Assets, perhaps at Fire Sale prices, and if and when I win the Appeal, they would be gone. Does that make sense? WITCH HUNT. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” Trump posted Tuesday morning during an hours-long meltdown at Engoron, still bizarrely lying about the “I have already won at the Appellate Division” part. He then added “I shouldn’t have to put up any money, being forced by the Corrupt Judge and AG, until the end of the appeal. That’s the way system works!” which is just lol.
On the political side, things are no better. CNBC reports the Trump campaign’s small dollar fundraising has absolutely fucking cratered, with top Republicans warning Team Orange that there’s probably nothing they can do to win back the donors who for years had kicked in to his political operations. Worse yet, wealthy Republican donors aren’t stepping up as they’re (correctly) worried that their money is just going to get sucked up by Trump’s legal fees and not electing Republicans.
The situation would be dire enough in a vacuum, but relative to the Biden campaign – which raked in $53 million last month and has $155 million in the bank – it’s absolutely extra fucking dire with Trump now having to beg Nikki Haley’s donors – the people whom less than two months ago he declared were “permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don’t want them, and will not accept them.”