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In reply to the discussion: Chubb CEO defends backing Trump appeal bond in E. Jean Carroll case [View all]Ocelot II
(115,995 posts)There's been a lot of assuming that the bond is backed by something (or someone) other than Trump's assets. Since he's a career criminal that's always a possibility, but I'm not the one assuming facts not in evidence. A reputable, very large and very financially stable insurer has issued an appeal bond for an amount of money that is not at all unusual in major litigation; it was accepted by the other party and signed off by the judge. All of Trump's gains were ill-gotten at some point. The assets he already holds were obtained dishonestly, if not illegally, and probably with a good amount of Russian money, as one of his dim sons once revealed. Does it matter how many levels of transactions are involved? But if there's actual evidence that this particular transaction was directly and immediately funded by some outside source, we haven't seen it.