ā€œAny foreign adversary seeking to buy a President knows the price,ā€ warns Rep. Sean Casten

A Democrat who sits on the House Financial Services Committee warned that former President Donald Trumpā€™s inability to secure a bondĀ for his $464 million fraud judgment makes him a ā€œmassive national security risk.ā€

Trumpā€™s lawyers in aĀ filingĀ on Monday told a New York appeals court that he cannot secure a bond after approaching 30 underwriters.

ā€œThe amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,ā€ the attorneys wrote.

The filing quoted an insurance broker who signed an affidavit stating that securing the bond is a ā€œpractical impossibility.ā€

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    this is past tense, isnā€™t it? like, he doesnā€™t ave more secrets to sell, and heā€™s sold the ones he already hadā€¦

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      Unless he ends up in the white house againā€¦then plenty more secrets to sell!

      I canā€™t believe thatā€™s actually a possibilityā€¦

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        I canā€™t believe thatā€™s actually a possibilityā€¦

        me neither. I really want to wake up and find out the last 8 years have been one long, fucked up dream.

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        As the GOP nominee he will begin to receive some intelligence briefings even before the elections, as early as July. It was recently reported that the White House, caught in a ā€œdamned if you damned if you donā€™t scenarioā€ that is synonymous with Trump, sided to go with tradition & allow Trump access to these, even while he fights a classified documents mishandling case in court. This wouldnā€™t make any sense in a Jack Ryan novel & yet ā€¦