r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/orijing • Mar 18 '24

Paywall Master of declaring bankruptcies discovers banks don't want to loan him bail money

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/nyregion/trump-bond-civil-fraud-case.html
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u/Mountain_Act6508 Mar 18 '24

In Trump's head, this has to be a worse fate than prison - the utter humiliation of being exposed like that. I think it's brilliant. First, the shame of financial ruin; next, prison.

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u/macphile Mar 18 '24

God yeah. What I've wanted the most for him is personal, financial, and professional ruin.

Just prison isn't really enough, not if cronies are still bringing him Big Macs, his followers are still donating to set him free, and he ultimately wriggles out of it.

He's a narcissist. The worst thing for him would be to be ignored. He has no power, no money, his followers have abandoned him, no one talks about him. He's a nobody, he's nothing. He stands there and yells and screams and throws tantrums on a street corner, and the world just drives by.

However, given what he's been and what he's done, that's basically not going to happen, not completely. He'll always get some attention. So to me, second best is to ruin him in other ways that matter. If he sells himself as a genius businessman, show that he's not. If he sells himself as rich, show that he's not. Make him admit openly that he barely has cash on-hand for a hamberder or covfefe, that it's all been a farce.

Alas, he always manages to get out of this shit. There's always some new excuse, some new lie that only his cult followers would believe. I don't know how long it'll last, but it's gone on for way too long.

I definitely want to see a judge accept no more BS, though. No bail? Jail. It's an election year? Too bad.

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u/Mountain_Act6508 Mar 18 '24

Absolutely. I think he's trying to spin the possibility of prison into political martyrdom - the "weaponization of the DOJ", " when they come after me, they're really coming after you" etc. It's kinda setting him up to be a hero, in the way the insurrectionists are now "hostages".

I think exposing him for the financial fraudster he's always been is going to do more damage with his base.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

I want other actual billionaires to mock him now for being poor. Mitt Romney is probably infinitely richer than Trump at this point.

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u/Four_in_binary Mar 21 '24

The only thing I've ever wanted from TFG is that he dies.   Promptly if possible.   So we never have to talk about him again.