Letitia James disses Trump claim he can't cover $454m fraud bond

Mar 20, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    90% Extremely Conservative

  • Reliability

    5% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    100% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

12% Positive

  •   Liberal
  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"With interest, Trump owes $456.8 million."
Positive
34% Conservative
"The development comes days after Trump was able to post a $91.6 million bond in the E. Jean Carroll defamation following a jury award he is also appealing."
Positive
24% Conservative
"Trump's lawyers' statement about 'crippling' fees came in the context of up front premiums totaling $19 million that could be due again in two years under a long appeal for Trump, whose net worth Forbes estimated at $2.6 billion."
Positive
18% Conservative
"That came before Trump furnished a letter from him signed days ago attesting to his efforts to get any of 30 companies to underwrite Trump."
Positive
10% Conservative
"A state appeals court judge ruled last month that Trump must post a bond covering the full amount to pause enforcement of the judgment, which is to begin on March 25."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Judge Engoron ruled in February that Trump, his company and top executives, including his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., schemed for years to deceive banks and insurers by inflating his wealth on financial statements used to secure loans and make deals."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Trump vented he would have to liquidate parts of his prized real estate empire at 'fire sale prizes' in order to raise the money, which his lawyers say approaches half a billion dollars once financing and fees are taken into account."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Trump vented in just one of his Truth Social posts."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"After approaching 30 underwriters, Trump couldn't find a single firm willing to post bond, according to an attestation filed with the court by longtime Trump Organization counsel Alan Garten."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Trump is asking a full panel of the state's intermediate appellate court to stay the judgment while he appeals."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"The former president's lawyers wrote in a court filing that 'obtaining an appeal bond in the full amount' of the judgment 'is not possible under the circumstances presented.'New York AG Letitia James has already threatened to seize assets if Trump didn't post bondThey revealed they had spoken to 30 underwriters to back the bond, which is due next week."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"The legal filing comes a day after Trump unloaded on Judge Arthur Engoron Tuesday as he seethed about his order to pay a $454 million judgement."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"It all comes as state AG Letitia James could begin seizing Trump assets as soon as Monday according to her prior threats in the event Trump did not pay the fine the judge imposed after his New York fraud trial."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Trump wrote, after his lawyers put such a request in writing after providing affidavits from Trump associates who said efforts to get top firms to underwrite Trump had fallen short."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Fan also pushed back on the claim by Trump lawyers that firms wouldn't accept real estate holdings as collateral."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"This Sham is forcing companies and people to flee New York, and stopping companies from entering.'A March 25 deadline for Trump to pay a staggering $454 million judgement against him is putting some of his prized real estate assets in jeopardy after his lawyers said he is unable to secure a bond."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Firms he said turned down the deal included insurers giants Allianz, Berkshire Hathaway, CAP Speciality, and Chubb - which underwrote Trump for the $91 bond for the $83 million judgement against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Trump is pictured during the fraud trial in JanuaryThe lawyers added that other bond companies are not accepting assets such as real estate as collateral and would likely charge up to 18 percent of the full amount upfrontHer office complained that Trump's lawyers 'aounced for the first time that various entity defendants operating in New York are allegedly now located on a golf club in Florida.'That included DJT Holdings LLC, 401 North Wabash Venture LLC and other entities."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Trump testified during the fraud case that he had $400 million in cash."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"Last week, James office wrote in a filing that Trump tried to move the addresses of multiple assets from Trump Tower to Florida."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"He said Judge Arther Engoron found Giulietti lacked credibility as a witness due to his 'ongoing personal and professional relationship with Donald Trump,' although Engoron did allow him to testify as an expert witness after legal sparring over the issue."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"He called James 'Racist and Politically Corrupt' and said Engoron is a 'Crazed, Trump Hating Rogue Judge' who 'has ZERO respect for the Appellate Judges.'Trum also inveighed against the judge and the case in a statement from his presidential campaign, which has relied on a series of criminal and civil prosecutions to goose his poll numbers."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"That suggests a liquidity problem for Trump, who testified in the New York fraud case that he had $400 million in cash."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"Trump said any business thinking about moving into the state is 'CRAZY!'"
Negative
-66% Liberal
"'Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision,' Trump wrote TuesdayTrump's latest filing sets up another high-pressure face-off with New York AG Letitia James, after his lawyers said insurance firms weren't willing to take chunks of his real estate empire as collateral, and that the fees of obtaining a bond even if he could obtain one would be 'crippling and punitive.'That left Trump in the position of urging an appeals court to impose a stay while he appeals the case."
Negative
-92% Liberal
"Trump wrote, as post after post piled up.'Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision,' Trump wrote."
Negative
-96% Liberal
"With interest, Trump owes $456.8 million."
Positive
18% Conservative
"The development comes days after Trump was able to post a $91.6 million bond in the E. Jean Carroll defamation following a jury award he is also appealing."
Positive
12% Conservative
"ELECTION INTERFERENCE!'James said last month she was 'very confident' in her case and mentioned one of Trump's trophy properties, 40 Wall St.'We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers, and yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day,' she said, noting the skyscraper is near her downtown office."
Positive
20% Conservative
"Trump's lawyers' statement about 'crippling' fees came in the context of up front premiums totaling $19 million that could be due again in two years under a long appeal for Trump, whose net worth Forbes estimated at $2.6 billion."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Trump's lawyers' statement about 'crippling' fees came in the context of up front premiums totaling $19 million that could be due again in two years under a long appeal for Trump, whose net worth Forbes estimated at $2.6 billion."
Positive
12% Conservative
"That came before Trump furnished a letter from him signed days ago attesting to his efforts to get any of 30 companies to underwrite Trump."
Positive
4% Conservative
"He was responding to the request by Trump's lawyers that he post a $100 million bond rather than the judge-ordered $454 million, which is increasing each day with interest."
Positive
6% Conservative
"As DailyMail.com reported, Giulietti has been a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago and Trump National golf clubs in Palm Beach, has posted about a charity event at Trump's Bedminister club, and testified about meeting him on the golf course."
Positive
6% Conservative
"A state appeals court judge ruled last month that Trump must post a bond covering the full amount to pause enforcement of the judgment, which is to begin on March 25."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Judge Engoron ruled in February that Trump, his company and top executives, including his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., schemed for years to deceive banks and insurers by inflating his wealth on financial statements used to secure loans and make deals."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Among other penalties, the judge put strict limitations on the ability of Trump's company, the Trump Organization, to do business."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Trump vented he would have to liquidate parts of his prized real estate empire at 'fire sale prizes' in order to raise the money, which his lawyers say approaches half a billion dollars once financing and fees are taken into account."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"To obtain a bond, they would be required to post collateral worth $557 million, Trump's lawyers said."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"'New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, has said that she will seek to seize some of Trump's assets if heu00b4s unable to pay the judgment."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Trump vented in just one of his Truth Social posts."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"After approaching 30 underwriters, Trump couldn't find a single firm willing to post bond, according to an attestation filed with the court by longtime Trump Organization counsel Alan Garten."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Multiple bond companies decline to 'accept hard assets such as real estate as collateral,' they noted, and will 'will only accept cash or cash equivalents (such as marketable securities).'The firms would likely charge 18 per cent up front, another staggering sum and one Trump would not be able to get back even if he prevailed on appeal."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"'Defendants' allegations thus boil down to the proposition that sureties have been unwilling to accept Mr. Trump's real-estate holdings as collateral in this case,' he wrote."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Trump is asking a full panel of the state's intermediate appellate court to stay the judgment while he appeals."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"The former president's lawyers wrote in a court filing that 'obtaining an appeal bond in the full amount' of the judgment 'is not possible under the circumstances presented.'New York AG Letitia James has already threatened to seize assets if Trump didn't post bondThey revealed they had spoken to 30 underwriters to back the bond, which is due next week."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Trump's lawyers told a New York appellate court Monday that it's impossible for him to post a bond covering the full amount of his $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The legal filing comes a day after Trump unloaded on Judge Arthur Engoron Tuesday as he seethed about his order to pay a $454 million judgement."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"It all comes as state AG Letitia James could begin seizing Trump assets as soon as Monday according to her prior threats in the event Trump did not pay the fine the judge imposed after his New York fraud trial."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"The filing suggests that Trump's empire of real estate and golf properties leaves him insufficiently liquid to meet the massive judgements against him."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Trump wrote, after his lawyers put such a request in writing after providing affidavits from Trump associates who said efforts to get top firms to underwrite Trump had fallen short."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Trump wrote, after his lawyers put such a request in writing after providing affidavits from Trump associates who said efforts to get top firms to underwrite Trump had fallen short."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump tore into Judge Arthur Engoron and New York AG Letitia James while facing a massive judicial order."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Deis Fan, a lawyer in James' office, took on Trump's contentions in a new filing, just days before a deadline where the AG has said she could seize Trump assets if he doesn't pay the judgement."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Deis Fan, a lawyer in James' office, took on Trump's contentions in a new filing, just days before a deadline where the AG has said she could seize Trump assets if he doesn't pay the judgement."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Even after approaching 30 underwriters, former President Trump couldn't get a firm to underwrite the staggering $454 million judgement against him'Engoron wants me to put up the ridiculous fine (I DID NOTHING WRONG!)"
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Fan also pushed back on the claim by Trump lawyers that firms wouldn't accept real estate holdings as collateral."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"New York AG Letitia James is dissing Donald Trump's claim that he can't find any company willing to help him post bond on his $454 million fraud judgement, ridiculing his effort to slash the amount saying the attester he relied on lacks credibility."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"This Sham is forcing companies and people to flee New York, and stopping companies from entering.'A March 25 deadline for Trump to pay a staggering $454 million judgement against him is putting some of his prized real estate assets in jeopardy after his lawyers said he is unable to secure a bond."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Firms he said turned down the deal included insurers giants Allianz, Berkshire Hathaway, CAP Speciality, and Chubb - which underwrote Trump for the $91 bond for the $83 million judgement against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Trump is pictured during the fraud trial in JanuaryThe lawyers added that other bond companies are not accepting assets such as real estate as collateral and would likely charge up to 18 percent of the full amount upfrontHer office complained that Trump's lawyers 'aounced for the first time that various entity defendants operating in New York are allegedly now located on a golf club in Florida.'That included DJT Holdings LLC, 401 North Wabash Venture LLC and other entities."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Trump is pictured during the fraud trial in JanuaryThe lawyers added that other bond companies are not accepting assets such as real estate as collateral and would likely charge up to 18 percent of the full amount upfrontHer office complained that Trump's lawyers 'aounced for the first time that various entity defendants operating in New York are allegedly now located on a golf club in Florida.'That included DJT Holdings LLC, 401 North Wabash Venture LLC and other entities."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Trump testified during the fraud case that he had $400 million in cash."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Last week, James office wrote in a filing that Trump tried to move the addresses of multiple assets from Trump Tower to Florida."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"He said Judge Arther Engoron found Giulietti lacked credibility as a witness due to his 'ongoing personal and professional relationship with Donald Trump,' although Engoron did allow him to testify as an expert witness after legal sparring over the issue."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"He called James 'Racist and Politically Corrupt' and said Engoron is a 'Crazed, Trump Hating Rogue Judge' who 'has ZERO respect for the Appellate Judges.'Trum also inveighed against the judge and the case in a statement from his presidential campaign, which has relied on a series of criminal and civil prosecutions to goose his poll numbers."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"That suggests a liquidity problem for Trump, who testified in the New York fraud case that he had $400 million in cash."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Trump said any business thinking about moving into the state is 'CRAZY!'"
Negative
-38% Liberal
"'Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision,' Trump wrote TuesdayTrump's latest filing sets up another high-pressure face-off with New York AG Letitia James, after his lawyers said insurance firms weren't willing to take chunks of his real estate empire as collateral, and that the fees of obtaining a bond even if he could obtain one would be 'crippling and punitive.'That left Trump in the position of urging an appeals court to impose a stay while he appeals the case."
Negative
-74% Liberal
"'Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision,' Trump wrote TuesdayTrump's latest filing sets up another high-pressure face-off with New York AG Letitia James, after his lawyers said insurance firms weren't willing to take chunks of his real estate empire as collateral, and that the fees of obtaining a bond even if he could obtain one would be 'crippling and punitive.'That left Trump in the position of urging an appeals court to impose a stay while he appeals the case."
Negative
-74% Liberal
"'Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision,' Trump wrote TuesdayTrump's latest filing sets up another high-pressure face-off with New York AG Letitia James, after his lawyers said insurance firms weren't willing to take chunks of his real estate empire as collateral, and that the fees of obtaining a bond even if he could obtain one would be 'crippling and punitive.'That left Trump in the position of urging an appeals court to impose a stay while he appeals the case."
Negative
-74% Liberal
"Trump wrote, as post after post piled up.'Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision,' Trump wrote."
Negative
-74% Liberal
"Trump wrote, as post after post piled up.'Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision,' Trump wrote."
Negative
-74% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : With interest, Trump owes $456.8 million.
62% : The development comes days after Trump was able to post a $91.6 million bond in the E. Jean Carroll defamation following a jury award he is also appealing.
59% : Trump's lawyers' statement about 'crippling' fees came in the context of up front premiums totaling $19 million that could be due again in two years under a long appeal for Trump, whose net worth Forbes estimated at $2.6 billion.
55% : That came before Trump furnished a letter from him signed days ago attesting to his efforts to get any of 30 companies to underwrite Trump.
52% : A state appeals court judge ruled last month that Trump must post a bond covering the full amount to pause enforcement of the judgment, which is to begin on March 25.
51% : Judge Engoron ruled in February that Trump, his company and top executives, including his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., schemed for years to deceive banks and insurers by inflating his wealth on financial statements used to secure loans and make deals.
47% : Trump vented he would have to liquidate parts of his prized real estate empire at 'fire sale prizes' in order to raise the money, which his lawyers say approaches half a billion dollars once financing and fees are taken into account.
44% : Trump vented in just one of his Truth Social posts.
44% : After approaching 30 underwriters, Trump couldn't find a single firm willing to post bond, according to an attestation filed with the court by longtime Trump Organization counsel Alan Garten.
42% : Trump is asking a full panel of the state's intermediate appellate court to stay the judgment while he appeals.
41% : The former president's lawyers wrote in a court filing that 'obtaining an appeal bond in the full amount' of the judgment 'is not possible under the circumstances presented.'New York AG Letitia James has already threatened to seize assets if Trump didn't post bondThey revealed they had spoken to 30 underwriters to back the bond, which is due next week.
37% : The legal filing comes a day after Trump unloaded on Judge Arthur Engoron Tuesday as he seethed about his order to pay a $454 million judgement.
37% : It all comes as state AG Letitia James could begin seizing Trump assets as soon as Monday according to her prior threats in the event Trump did not pay the fine the judge imposed after his New York fraud trial.
36% : Trump wrote, after his lawyers put such a request in writing after providing affidavits from Trump associates who said efforts to get top firms to underwrite Trump had fallen short.
33% : Fan also pushed back on the claim by Trump lawyers that firms wouldn't accept real estate holdings as collateral.
32% : This Sham is forcing companies and people to flee New York, and stopping companies from entering.'A March 25 deadline for Trump to pay a staggering $454 million judgement against him is putting some of his prized real estate assets in jeopardy after his lawyers said he is unable to secure a bond.
31% : Firms he said turned down the deal included insurers giants Allianz, Berkshire Hathaway, CAP Speciality, and Chubb - which underwrote Trump for the $91 bond for the $83 million judgement against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case.
31% : Trump is pictured during the fraud trial in JanuaryThe lawyers added that other bond companies are not accepting assets such as real estate as collateral and would likely charge up to 18 percent of the full amount upfrontHer office complained that Trump's lawyers 'announced for the first time that various entity defendants operating in New York are allegedly now located on a golf club in Florida.'That included DJT Holdings LLC, 401 North Wabash Venture LLC and other entities.
30% : Trump testified during the fraud case that he had $400 million in cash.
27% : Last week, James office wrote in a filing that Trump tried to move the addresses of multiple assets from Trump Tower to Florida.
26% : He said Judge Arther Engoron found Giulietti lacked credibility as a witness due to his 'ongoing personal and professional relationship with Donald Trump,' although Engoron did allow him to testify as an expert witness after legal sparring over the issue.
25% : He called James 'Racist and Politically Corrupt' and said Engoron is a 'Crazed, Trump Hating Rogue Judge' who 'has ZERO respect for the Appellate Judges.'Trum also inveighed against the judge and the case in a statement from his presidential campaign, which has relied on a series of criminal and civil prosecutions to goose his poll numbers.
25% : That suggests a liquidity problem for Trump, who testified in the New York fraud case that he had $400 million in cash.
17% : Trump said any business thinking about moving into the state is 'CRAZY!'
4% : 'Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision,' Trump wrote TuesdayTrump's latest filing sets up another high-pressure face-off with New York AG Letitia James, after his lawyers said insurance firms weren't willing to take chunks of his real estate empire as collateral, and that the fees of obtaining a bond even if he could obtain one would be 'crippling and punitive.'That left Trump in the position of urging an appeals court to impose a stay while he appeals the case.
2% : Trump wrote, as post after post piled up.'Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision,' Trump wrote.

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