Rachel Maddow explained how Trump’s urgent need for cash is a threat to national security.
Maddow said:
So he really needs money. Right now, there's a half billion dollar bond that he needs in two weeks. He's openly changing his public positions in ways that seem to be motivated by financial incentives. There's no transparency about who might be helping him get this money and collateral for these bonds. We don't even know if he got help for the $91 million bond for the E. Jean Carroll case. from that company. We have asked Trump if anyone else helped him get that bond but haven't heard back yet. Regardless of what it means for him personally, this is very dangerous in terms of national security.
And politically, it’s a dangerous thing for us as a country. I mean, think about if, if you needed to get a security clearance for work, right? You wanted to get a security clearance, but when you applied for that clearance, the FBI did their background check on you and they became aware that you were in this much need of this much money this urgently if you were applying for a security clearance right now. And the FBI found that two weeks from today, you need to put up cash and collateral, collateral to secure almost a half billion dollars
of a bond to pay your court judgments.
Do you think you would get a security clearance? There is no chance you would ever be approved for even the lowest level security clearance? Because the risk is just too obvious.
Video:
Rachel #Maddow on Trump’s desperate need for cash as a threat to national security, “Everything must go. Everything’s for sale. Anybody who can pay can get what they want. And you wonder why guys like this always want to undermine the rule of law.” pic.twitter.com/6fDYcnwYN8
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 12, 2024
Maddow concluded:
We are in a place where the entire Republican Party apparatus is merging with Trump’s personal legal defense apparatus. And the way he has been behaving when it comes to being transactional at his time of most desperate financial need puts us no matter how you think of Trump, no matter whether you support him or not, no matter whether you care about politics or not, it puts us the American people in a radically fragile place when it comes to what exactly is for sale in our country and from our government, I mean, Bud Light and TikTok seem to have figured out very early on where exactly you insert the coins to receive your prize.
But, but if anything is for sale, right? If, if everything is for sale, what makes you think it’s gonna stop with thin beer and Chinese social media apps, everything must go, everything’s for sale. Anybody who can pay can get what they want. And you wonder why guys like this always want to undermine the rule of law.
Video:
Rachel #Maddow, “He desperately needs money right now. That bond, that half-billion bond, that’s due 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.” pic.twitter.com/FTqWdViWnD
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 12, 2024
Rachel Maddow didn’t say it, but the suggestion is that if Trump starts receiving national security briefings, what would prevent him from selling them to gather much-needed money?
The RNC is essentially bankrupt. Trump’s fundraising has dried up. Donald Trump really needs money and one way he could obtain it is by selling US secrets.
Heck, Trump could make various commitments about what he will do for anyone once he’s back in the White House if they give him a check today.
Donald Trump is a multifaceted national security threat, but the greatest current danger to our country might be Trump’s urgent need for cash.
