My assumption is not that Trump was admitting to being a flight risk by his TS post

[Hugh_Lebowski]

My assumption is one of a number of things or combination thereof led him to create that post that has to have his lawyers bashing their heads against a wall repeatedly:

1) He is embarrassed by that fact that everyone will be able to say 'Trump is out on $200,000 bail' because it sounds bad. $200K bail is indicative of major crimes. He wants to reframe it from 'indicative of major crimes' to 'they stupidly think I want to run away'.

2) Alternatively, he's calculated this move is going to wind up with him being slapped with an ankle bracelet (and frankly, it should). And he actually welcomes that, and I can come up with about 5 reasons why he might, #1 of course being fundraising, #2 being 'see, ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!' and I could go on with other angles along these lines.

3) He's really not as rich (or at least wealth is not liquid) as he makes it out to be, and $200K is actually a lot to him and/or he hates the idea that he has to hand over so much to the Court because it won't earn him interest. Obviously this implies that he's such an idiot that he thinks he has a shot at getting it reduced by ridiculing the DA over the idea that he would flee.

4) He is such a pathological narcissist with such a profound and deep need for constant attention that he made this post KNOWING it would result with endless chatter on the Web, and his face and words being talked about on the TeeVee for a couple days.

[Ocelot II]

1. The bond amount was $200K but he would only have to had posted 10%, $20K, in cash.

Usually with a bail bond the remaining amount is secured by some kind of collateral, which would be forfeited if he doesn't show up. I agree that he wasn't threatening to leave the country, but he made it clear that he was capable of doing so. That might be enough to at least require the forfeiture of his passport, at least.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Yeah I sorta know how bail and bail bonds work

Do you think Trump is going to want to be seen as unable to come up with a measly $200,000 when he portrays himself as a billionaire ... by eliciting the services of a bail bondsman and thus forfeiting $20,000?

I really doubt he'd prefer that 'look' over posting $200,000 himself (or, rather, with donor money).

Or are you saying he wouldn't need the bondsman, or to forfeit the 20K in which case ... you know more than me

But yeah, I think #3 is on the lower side of likelihood but I thought it worth mentioning

[Ocelot II]

3. Good point. Did he post the entire $200K in cash or did he get a bond? I just assumed the latter

because he's such a cheap bastard. And none of it, not even the $20K, would come out of his pocket anyhow; it's all being financed by thousands of morons.

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