Why does he get a motorcade at all? Let him get stuck in traffic like every other private citizen.
No, the others are rarely over 3 cars. The current president can get up to 45 ish depending on who is traveling with them.
Motorcades are for (current) heads of state and dead people. Trump is such a tease…
So who the fuck is paying for this? Can’t actually be Trump, can it?
Could be. He’d rather spend it on flashy cars than defense attorneys. Plus, he has billions, he can afford it.
Secret service protection, so yes, our tax dollars.
I remember it was mentioned when they shut down bits of Manhattan, that Clinton didn’t shut down streets and just had a few cars.
Most have front car, former president car, and back car.
Maybe he just said he would pay for the motorcade. As to whether he actually will, well …
FWIW, on CNN just now, they noted that Trump has elected the option of putting 10% of the bond down. He’s dealing through a bail bondsman. That doesn’t sound like something that a billionaire to whom $20K is chump change would do.
He just loves going on the cheap.
I have never seen Dog the Bounty Hunter, but please, oh please, oh please let there be a Trump episode.
To be fair, I agree with @PhillyGuy - we are having our fun, but this is a sad day for this country.
When life gives you lemons…
The base neither knows nor cares, as long as it looks like the Reps are backing their boy Trump.
People who do know and care will realize that the House’s influence over Fulton County amounts to allocating some loose change here and there.
Exactly, so it’s actually smart politics on their part, even if anyone with a clue knows that it’s just theater.
FYI, Trump’s plane is in the air right this minute. Watch its track here:
The fourth sad day just this year. I’m out of tears.
He’s probably friends with the local sheriff and/or police director and I’m sure there are plenty of officers who would volunteer their off time to be in his motorcade. The use of official vehicles could be problematic but who is going to say something?
I’m not a TV guy, but wouldn’t it always be?
This is from an opinion column but sounds right:
If there’s a secret here, it wouldn’t be editing, but up-front planning. Trump does a great job of convincing people you are seeing the spontaneous real him – so great a job that I myself don’t know where reality ends and acting begins. Except that I don’t think full spontaneity is consistent with having once won the presidency and being well-positioned, according to early polls, to do it again.
Re your speculation that Trump let his lawyers cut out his most outrageous riffs, if some journalist can prove that, it might hurt DJT’s campaign. His appeal is based on the idea that whether or not you agree with him, he’s real while other politicians are phony.
I believe a bail bondsman charges quite the fee. It’s essentially a short term loan with a hefty interest rate. It’s like a payday loan. Anyone with any spare cash and business sense would never use such a service, as it would be more cost efficient to front the money yourself and avoid the hefty fees/interest.
If I’m filthy rich and have a couple million sitting around in a cash account making 5% interest, why would I go to a bail bondsman and pay a 10% fee for a short term loan of $200,000? (I gather 10% is a fairly standard fee)
I wonder what collateral he put up.
Honestly, if he had anywhere close to a billion dollars in assets, the cheapest and easiest thing to do is post the bail with the court. But maybe people laughing at him for his cash bond in NY motivated him to go this route this time. I recall some headlines like “Trump can’t get a bond.”
Right. It’s the expensive way to do it. By the desperate who can’t front the full amount. Unless of course, you plan on forfeiting it. Then it’s the cheap way.
To put it into perspective… If we believe Trump’s net worth to be 2.5 billion…
This would be like someone with a claimed net worth of 2.5 million dollars needing to come up with $200 to pay a speeding fine. But they then go into a payday loan joint to borrow the money, and will have to pay it back with 10% interest.
Most people would see that and think “Oh dear. This guy does not have a pot to piss in, and his claimed net worth is bullshit.”