I think I hear music…either the world’s smallest violin playing, or possibly a faint wah-wah ‘sad trumpet’ sound.
Trump calls NY attorney general’s bond suggestions ‘impractical and unjust’
Another consideration about Russia fronting him the bond money is the need to do it in dollars, not rubles, and hide the transaction from keen-eyed investigators looking for it. Just how much foreign exchange do they have banked? No doubt Putin, for one, has a fortune socked away in countries outside Russia, but how much of that is liquid enough, and can be laundered fast enough, to bail Trump out?
I can’t see that happening. Trump is struggling to break $20 million/month for his actual political campaign donations.
There’s no way he’s going to magically pull in almost thirty times that amount just for his own personal financial problems.
He either gets a huge boost from someone looking to buy a presidential candidate, or he’s screwed.
Pre-2016, Putin was in a classic, “Heads I win, tails you lose” position. If Trump wins the election, he’s got a stooge in the White House, and if trump loses, he has Trump spreading election denying claims all over the place, degrading trust in the US system of government and causing increasingly divisive public problems. Either way, Putin comes out ahead of the US.
Chubb has an office in Moscow. I don’t see any reason why the Moscow office couldn’t make an inter-company transfer to the Zürich headquarters, which could then make an inter-company transfer to the U.S. headquarters in New Jersey.
Alina Habba was asked recently about possible funding for the bond from Saudi or Russia and refused to “divulge strategy.” Should have been an easy “no,” no?
I believe the MAGA waters are being tested to see just how much support this would cost him.
As for Russian ROI, having a compliant US president could save them tens, maybe even hundreds of billions in Ukraine alone.
Hey, I am never more happy to be told I’m wrong than on this subject! 
I don’t know, it seems the Simpsons were pretty prescient, only nobody took them seriously in that regard. And then there is Lou Reed, who not only wrote Dirt in the '70s, a song that must refer to Trump if you listen to the lyrics, but he also wrote Sick of You in 1989 (OK, technically not the '90s), which includes this fourth verse that has me scratching my head:
They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps
And died being treated at Mt. Sinai
And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill
Some wired doctor prescribed for stress
My arms and legs are shrunk, the food all has lumps
They discovered some animal no one’s ever seen
It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire
After running over Rudy Giuliani
They say the President’s dead, no one can find his head
It’s been missing now for weeks
But no one noticed it, he had seemed so fit
I’m sick of it
I’m sick of you
Oh man, I love Lou Reed’s “New York” album. It has many other prescient lines about America’s state today:
From “Dirty Boulevard”:
“Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, I’ll piss on 'em”
That’s what the statue of bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let’s club 'em to death
And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard
Or from “The Last Great American Whale”:
Well, Americans don’t care for much of anything
Land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
With human life not worth more than infected yeast
Americans don’t care too much for beauty
They’ll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They’ll watch dead rats wash up on the beach
Complain if they can’t swim
I’m pretty sure I heard somewhere that the writer who came up with the Simpsons’ “President trump” gag did so by thinking of the public figure of the time who would be the most ridiculous, unlikely choice to ever become President. So it’s more an example of ‘holy beejezus truth is stranger than fiction’ than it is of ‘The Simpsons is prescient!’.
Those Lou Reed lyrics are eerily Nostradamic, though.
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They call it Schadenfreudey Monday, but let’s hope Tuesday’s just as bad
And Lord, Wednesday’s worse, and on Thursday trump posts “SAD!”
The judgements file on Friday, Saturday he doesn’t have a place to stay
Sunday trump is broke and homeless, with his campaign in decay.
Golf clap!
Dark Brandon is on fire, according to this anecdote circulating on the interwebs:
LOL, did the person come up to Biden with tears in their eyes? Did they say, “Sir”?
This implies that he isn’t already.
Lots o’ bitcoin moving around in recent times. That’s all I’m saying. 
He also (or, more accurately, whoever manages his ‘X’ account) had a great response to trump’s “ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO?” post…
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Not sure if this happens to everyone, but my screen went crazy with warnings and virus threats when I clicked on that link.
Weird, didn’t happen for me. I should probably scan my HD just in case. Apologies if I unknowingly exposed anyone to any malware.
Is there a Cliff Notes version? 'Cuz a canNOT listen to that man speak, plus I’m at work.