Yeah, but $200,000 for Trump feels like a joke. It should be more in line with his income to be meaningful.
Well, judging by his tax returns his income isn’t much to brag about.
We aren’t even sure those are real as well. It’s why NY was prosecuting him for tax fraud.
To be honest it probably is just he continues to spew his is a billionaire so it should be a billion dollars see what happens. 200k is a joke.
That was probably true before he became President but I doubt it is anymore. He spent his entire term lining his pockets with as much taxpayer money as possible… And that’s not even taking into account the fact that he’s been campaigning this entire time to fund his legal defense against the numerous criminal and civil cases against him.
And in Georgia, you only have to post 10%.
I keep seeing this, so I wanted to clear up some details:
- Bail isn’t a penalty, it is an incentive to return for trial (to get your money back). Bail was waived for Trump in previous cases because not only is he constantly followed by Secret Service, he is a high profile person who won’t be able to hide for long anywhere in the world.
- Bail is typically a tenth (or less) of what Trump was given for even violent felonies.
- You must pay the entire amount to be released on bail, unless you get a bail bond.
- A bail bond is when a third party agrees to pay the bail amount if you do not show up for trial. The 10% frequently cited is a fee to the bail bondsman for taking this risk. You still have to provide some kind of collateral to the bondsman to cover the remainder of the bail amount.
- You don’t get the 10% back. If you have the cash to cover bail, it makes sense to use it because then you can get it all back.
Trump getting a bail bond would be a public admission that he doesn’t have the cash. He’ll find the cash.
You must pay the entire amount to be released on bail, unless you get a bail bond.
Reporting I’ve seen is that in the jurisdiction which Trump is charged in Georgia, you only have to post 10% to the court. Presumably, if you then abscond, you are on the hook for the remainder.
EDIT: Reporting I have seen appears to be wrong; parent commenter appears to be correct:
Another edit:
Hmm. I’m looking at Eastman’s jail record, and all of his charges say “Disposition: 10% bond.” So I really don’t know.
Yeah, I looked over the article and they say this, but I can’t find a single reference to that program outside of articles about Trump. Odd.
Even the article doesn’t say if the 10% is returned. Maybe the FC Sheriff has in-house bail bonding.
I saw your initial reply and looked into it, edited the above. I think you’re right and the reporting is wrong. I’ve seen wrong reporting on other aspects of this situation, too, so this is not a surprise to me. That’s why my initial reply was in reference to “reporting I’ve seen.” I already had my doubts.
I think that’s most places.
The parent poster is still technically correct.
Does it feel like the news is all opinion pieces these days? All I see is “someone said something on Twitter” lately.
This is the politics community, not news, so opinion pieces are fair game.
But yeah, even so, I hate how even “news” articles are “elon posted something on twitter”.
The steep decline in money available to publishers means that they’re going to cut reporting in favor of paying an intern to copy and paste off of twitter. You end up with twenty different publications summarizing the same AP article with one paragraph, the. a dozen hot takes on twitter by people you’ve never heard of.
And we’re reaching the point where they don’t even need the intern to do it.
What? You don’t want to hear about the latest thing Elon Musk said/did on/with Twitter?
Try reading a reputable news outlet instead of social media
Very few left my friend, very few.
“Some words”
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The $200,000 bond approved for Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case is significant as it suggests the former president “cannot be trusted” to surrender to authorities for processing, according to a legal expert.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee approved the amount for the former president on Monday, the first time Trump has been asked to post bond in any of the four criminal cases he is involved in.
Discussing the bond arrangement, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman said that while the amount of money is not an issue for the former president, it is noteworthy that Judge McAfee should take steps to ensure that Trump does hand himself in.
But the bigger provision is the anti tampering condition—he can’t do anything to intimidate any co-deft or witness or otherwise obstruct the administration of justice," Litman posted on X, formerly Twitter.
The former president is not allowed to communicate with witnesses or any of the 18 other co-defendants in the case, which includes his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and his ex-personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, except through his lawyers.
Trump was previously accused of witness intimidation via his Truth Social posts by legal experts after suggesting that former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan shouldn’t testify to a grand jury just prior to the Fulton County indictment being announced.
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Trump still has his passport. He is flying out to Saudi Arabia or israel where the US can’t touch him.
You might need to update your list of countries outside of the US’ sphere of influence - those are both close allies. :)
In this case, I don’t think it’s a matter of “so he’ll show up in court” as opposed to “so he’ll stop shitposting”. Which he won’t. My wild-ass guess is that the sequence will be Trump violates bond conditions–>original bond is forfeited and new bond is set at a much higher amount, say $1,000,000–>Trump violates second bond—>bond revoked, Trump remanded into custody.
They shouldn’t have even set one. It’s just gonna make his base donate.
When’s he going to do something that allows the cops to just shoot him?
Wrong color.
when he turns black
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Meh. Random lawyer saying things.
Then again, this is trump and you know he’s dumb as a rock and always ready to put up a show.
Then again, please please don’t show up. I want to watch a SWAT team kick in his door and drag him out screaming “I thought this was America! MAGAFLGHH” and then a cop puts a knee in his neck. I know, will never happen, bit wouldn’t that be fun for a change
Isn’t that the entire point of pre-trial detention?
I mean, I kinda hope for a Dog - Trump Showdown
Dog probably voted for Trump and would help him escape.
Unless his politics have changed substantially since the last time I thought about Dog.
“Go with god, bruh.”
Premise of the article is flawed. They’re setting bond amounts for everyone. Seems like standard procedure in Fulton County, GA.
The article is deceitful, because it’s quoting former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman. So it’s a former prosecutor saying the $200k bond means Trump cannot be trusted, not the courts saying that.
U.S. Marshalls to U.S. Secret Service:
Trump seems to be the type of petty person to bring the bail in pennies.
Which is illegal in certain instances, if you’re doing it for the sake of creating a nuisance. Definitely in line with what he does.
