Rachel Maddow explained how Trump’s urgent need for cash is a threat to national security.
Maddow said:
So he desperately needs money. I mean, right now that bond, the half billion dollar bond, is two weeks from today and he needs that money so urgently right now as he is openly changing his long publicly held political position, presumably felt, in ways that appear to be simply responsiveness to financial incentives on the bond he has already paid. And the huge problem he will have to endure over the next couple of weeks is that there is no public transparency about who might sign with him or otherwise underwrite these bonds. Someone helps him put up the money and collateral for these bonds. If so, what do they get in return for their generosity towards him? I mean, we know the name of the bail bond company that posted the $91 million bail in the E. Jean Carroll case, but we don’t know if it was Trump alone or Trump and some aides who posted the necessary cash and collateral . to get that constraint from that compAnyone. This evening we asked Trump if he would tell us if there were co-signers or anyone who otherwise assisted him in obtaining that bail. We haven’t heard from him yet. We’ll let you know if we do, but in terms of national security, this is a deeply dangerous thing, regardless of what it means for him personally.
And politically it’s a dangerous thing for us as a country. I mean, imagine what if, what if I needed a security clearance for work, right? You wanted to get a security clearance, but when you applied for that clearance, the FBI did a background check on you and they realized that you needed so much money so badly if you were applying for a security clearance security, right Now. And the FBI has found that two weeks from today it will need to provide cash and collateral, collateral to secure nearly half a billion dollars
of a bond to pay your court judgments.
Do you think you would get a security clearance? Is there any chance you will ever be approved for even the lowest level security clearance? Because the risk is all too evident.
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Video:
Rachel #Maddow on Trump’s desperate need for cash as a national security threat: “It all has to go. It’s all for sale. Anyone who can pay can get what he wants. And you wonder why guys like these always want to undermine the rule of law.” pic.twitter.com/6fDYcnwYN8
– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 12, 2024
Maddow concluded:
We are in a place where the entire Republican Party apparatus is merging with Trump’s personal legal defense apparatus. And the way he has conducted himself when it comes to being transactional in his time of most desperate financial need brings us, no matter what you think of Trump, no matter whether you support him or not, no matter whether you care about politics or not, he puts we the American people in a radically fragile position when it comes to what exactly is for sale in our country and by our government, I mean, Bud Light and TikTok seem to have figured out very early on exactly where to insert coins get your prize
But if something is for sale, right? If, if everything is for sale, what makes you think it’s going to end with light beer and Chinese social media apps, everything has to go, everything is for sale. Anyone who can pay can get what he wants. And you wonder why guys like these always want to undermine the rule of law.
Video:
Rachel #Maddow, “He desperately needs money right now. That bond, that half billion bond, matures two weeks from today. And he needs that money so urgently, right now, while he is openly changing his long-held, seemingly sincere, publicly held political positions.” pic.twitter.com/FTqWdViWnD
– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 12, 2024
Rachel Maddow didn’t say it, but the implication is that if Trump started getting national security briefings, what’s to stop him from selling them to raise much-needed money?
The RNC is practically broke. Trump’s fundraising has dried up. Donald Trump desperately needs money and one of the ways he could get it would be to sell US secrets.
Heck, Trump could make all sorts of promises about what he’ll do for everyone once he gets back to the White House if they wrote him a check today.
Donald Trump represents a multi-faceted national security threat, but the greatest current risk to our country may be Trump’s urgent need for cash.
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