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Donald Trump using bail bondsman rings alarm bells about his finances
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The bail bondsman who gave him that loan is the biggest sucker in the whole MAGA kingdom. That $180,000 will never be seen again.
Edit: Nevermind, I didn’t understand how bail works.
A bail bondsman has more legal options for going after someone than any other type of loan officer, including the use of bounty hunters.
Imagine working as a bounty hunter going after a US President.
*FORMER US President.
4 times indicted former US president**.
**This has only ever been known to happen once in the history of the country
Don't forget twice impeached, zero-time winner of the popular vote
Sounds like a movie, but I wouldn’t want to be the bounty hunter tasked with going up against the Secret Service! Though this does raise questions about the Secrets Service’s responsibility to protect against legally sanctioned law enforcement (of sorts).
As long as the SS keeps him alive, they are doing their job. Unfortunately, I suspect that the dudes that are surrounding Trump might take that to the extreme.
Wanna bet the bondsman is his supporter and won't even mind losing the money? It is a goddamn cult.
There's an episode of Dog I'd watch.
That is undoubtedly a great bounty hunter resume stuffer.
"- provided white-glove support for Donald Trump's capture"
my betting pool says its an odds-on favourite that he'll run away to Russia before 2024 and claim he's being int exile due to persecution. Of course, he and his griftng family will ask for $$ from the suckers.
I've been surprised that hasn't happened already since even before Jan 6.
Orangeman would be president of "United States Government in Exile", based in the expensive neighborhood of Rublevka, in Moscow, Russia
Seems like he might not be able to afford that.
Couldn't if they're in Russia with the current sanctions.
Why would they go to russia when trumps private plane is shot down 30 miles outside of moscow?
He is useful to Putin living in a gilded cage continuously fueling divide in the US.
And all the classified documents he has shoved up his ass to flex on people
One with secret service.
I mean first off you're going to have to fight the secret service right?
Sure, but this is a pretty unprecedented situation... I doubt there are many bounty hunters who know how to deal with a secret service detail, for instance
That’s not how bail bonds works. It’s not a loan. You pay the bondsman 10%. Then the bondsman guarantees that the defendant will show up to his court dates. If the defendant fails to show up the bondsman has to pay the court the entire amount. Bondsman often use bounty hunters to pick up defendants who haven’t shown up.
I am not American, so it might be the phrasing that confuses me.
But is the 10% returned to the defendant? Or that's a flat fee that the bondsman take?
If that is the latter, then I understand why people are questioning why Trump is using a bondsman since he supposedly have the cash to cover the full bond that he will get back once he shows up.
So either he plans to fuck off so he saved 90% of his bond, or he's having cashflow issues.
If it's the former, then it make total sense to use a bondsman regardless of your fortune.
The 10% is payment to the bondsman. They keep it.
Then people definitely have to question why a supposed billionaire is using a bondsman.
Exactly, if he actually had the money and doesn't plan on skipping town, then he should have no problem putting that money up. I see a lot of people saying he's not above running away, but I really don't think his ego would let him. I think he truly believes he can beat the charges or win the election first, despite all the losses he's already had.
You can consider the 10% as "interest" since the bondsman would have to cover the rest of the bail in case the indictee doesn't show up
And they get their pay normally by keeping the 10% from the defendant. If the defendant skips town, they lose the other 90% unless they can locate the defendant and get them back to court.
It pretty much is
I'm curious, does the bondsman actually give the court cash, or just guarantee that they will if the defendant doesn't show? And if that is the case, do they bond out more people than they actually have cash to cover, knowing that it is unlikely that they'll ever have to cover all those positions?
Someone correct me, but I think it's dependent on the court. But either way, that's why they generally employ bounty hunters to track down the defendants to make sure they don't have to pay the court the rest.
Trump wouldn't be the one paying it back. Unless you're implying he's going to not show up for trial.
You really think he's "above" skipping town to avoid jail time?
50:50. If he doesn't skip and gets elected he Pardons himself
He can't pardon State Crimes. Only Federal.
Above it? no. Capable of doing so? also no.