Billionaires including fossil fuel magnate Harold Hamm and bottomfeeder who got rich in the 2008 housing market failure John Paulson were two of the people trying to pull cash together to cover Donald Trump’s $450 million bond needed to appeal his civil disgorgement, Reuters reports.
The arrangement once again highlight Trump’s susceptibility to influence from the people who allow him to keep his property and lifestyle while he fight to keep the money he got from illegal business practices. This comes on the heels of a report that one of the major stakeholders in TikTok, Jeff Yass, purchased a major share of DWAC, the “blank check” company that merged with Trump Media, enabling the company to go public on Tuesday. After previously calling for TikTok to be banned in the US as a national security threat, ten days ago Donald Trump flip-flopped his position and pushed against a proposed ban.