Donald Trump reportedly used a bail bondsman after being arrested at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, paying $20,000 of his bond set at $200,000 and taking out a loan for the rest of it. The fact that the former president resorted to such a measure has sparked questions on social media about the state of his finances.

  • wolfpack86@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Completely agree with you, however if trump thought he would get more than 20k in returns on the 180k in principle he saved, this also is a good financial play.

    That said, 200k is petty cash for a billionaire. Or should be, if one was.

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      1 year ago

      I suppose a big factor is how long until trial. If it’s less than a year, it seems unlikely he’d get that, but if he manages to stretch it out to multiple years, he’d get that easily.

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      1 year ago

      It’s .02%, or .0002 of a billion. That’s a whoops it slipped out of my pocket while I was changing my diaper kind of petty cash.