Maddow On Trump Security Risk: He 'Desperately' Needs Money

Last night, Rachel Maddow talked about how this is a difficult and dangerous thing for us as a country because Trump's got to put up bonds for over $500 million worth of court judgments right within the next two weeks.

"He's put up already under $100 million. Still another 400+ million to go very soon. He does not appear to have the cash and assets and collateral to pay for those bonds, to put up what he needs to put up for those bonds without considerable strain, if he can even cobble anything together to bolster those bonds in total.

"So he desperately needs money, I mean, right now. That bond, that half billion bond, that's two weeks from today. And he needs that money so urgently, right now, while he is openly changing his publicly-held, long held supposedly heartfelt policy positions in which that appears to be straight-up responsiveness to -- cha-ching. Financial initiative. On the bond he paid already and the huge one he's got to put up for within the next two weeks, there is no public transparency into who might be cosigning with him or otherwise underwriting these bonds."

So Maddow wonders if someone helped him put up the cash and collateral -- and what are they getting in exchange?

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