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Lets give credit where credit is due. In addition to being perhaps the nation's foremost authority/practitioner of being a deadbeat (That's right NATO, nobody can spot a deadbeat faster than DJT), Trump has emerged as a bail bondsman's wet dream. That doesn't mean he has actually posted any bail; however, obtaining the guarantor for the reduced, yes reduced obligation for his financial CRIMES, demonstrated that all criminals, large, small, and/or morbidly obese are entitled to bail, or in his case "bail-out"......

The massive financial penalty put Trump's prized properties at risk after defense lawyers warned that securing a $464 million bond was a "practical impossibility" -- but New York's Appellate Division granted a last-minute request to reduce the bond to $175 million, which Trump secured through a California underwriter...

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Good point. Still, he’s free on bail. I guess you could say he’s the beneficiary of a someone else funding his bail. I guess that’s ok if you’re wealthy; not ok if you’re not wealthy.

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