Trump faces 'insurmountable difficulties' in securing $464M bond in civil fraud case

Mar 18, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    34% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

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

1% Positive

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  •   Conservative
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"While Garten said Trump is financially stable and maintains substantial assets, the magnitude of the judgment would require him to use his real estate as collateral for the bond."
Positive
4% Conservative
"While it is my understanding that the Trump Organization is in a strong liquidity position, it does not have $1 billion in cash or cash equivalents, Guilietti wrote."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Trump's attorneys, who have called the judgment unconstitutionally excessive, asked an appellate court again on Monday to allow Trump to secure a bond in a lesser amount."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"So far, according to Garten's affirmation, no surety bond provider approached by Trump is willing to accept real estate as collateral, including Chubb, the insurance giant underwriting Trump's bond in the E. Jean Carroll case."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Judge Arthur Engoron in February ordered Trump to pay $464 million in disgorgement and interest after holding him liable for doing a decade's worth of business with fraudulent financial statements that overvalued his real estate holdings and hyped his wealth."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"The New York Attorney General's Office has objected to a lesser bond, arguing Trump and his co-defendants will attempt to evade enforcement of the judgment or to make enforcement more difficult."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Trump was also barred from leading any New York company for three years."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"While Garten said Trump is financially stable and maintains substantial assets, the magnitude of the judgment would require him to use his real estate as collateral for the bond."
Positive
2% Conservative
"During a Donald Trump speech in Ohio, the ex-president said, while addressing the auto industry, there would be a bloodbath if he doesn't win 2024."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"According to the filing, Gary Guilietti -- the president of insurance surety Lockton Companies who testified in Trump's defense at trial -- has helped coordinate the Trump Organization's outreach to bond companies."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump's attorneys, who have called the judgment unconstitutionally excessive, asked an appellate court again on Monday to allow Trump to secure a bond in a lesser amount."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"So far, according to Garten's affirmation, no surety bond provider approached by Trump is willing to accept real estate as collateral, including Chubb, the insurance giant underwriting Trump's bond in the E. Jean Carroll case."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"So far, according to Garten's affirmation, no surety bond provider approached by Trump is willing to accept real estate as collateral, including Chubb, the insurance giant underwriting Trump's bond in the E. Jean Carroll case."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump is facing insurmountable difficulties in obtaining a bond to satisfy the $464 million civil fraud judgment, his attorneys said Monday in a new appellate court filing."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Judge Arthur Engoron in February ordered Trump to pay $464 million in disgorgement and interest after holding him liable for doing a decade's worth of business with fraudulent financial statements that overvalued his real estate holdings and hyped his wealth."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"The New York Attorney General's Office has objected to a lesser bond, arguing Trump and his co-defendants will attempt to evade enforcement of the judgment or to make enforcement more difficult."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump was also barred from leading any New York company for three years."
Negative
-30% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : While Garten said Trump is "financially stable" and maintains "substantial assets," the magnitude of the judgment would require him to use his real estate as collateral for the bond.
52% : "While it is my understanding that the Trump Organization is in a strong liquidity position, it does not have $1 billion in cash or cash equivalents," Guilietti wrote.
34% : Trump's attorneys, who have called the judgment "unconstitutionally excessive," asked an appellate court again on Monday to allow Trump to secure a bond in a lesser amount.
33% : So far, according to Garten's affirmation, no surety bond provider approached by Trump is willing to accept real estate as collateral, including Chubb, the insurance giant underwriting Trump's bond in the E. Jean Carroll case.
24% : Judge Arthur Engoron in February ordered Trump to pay $464 million in disgorgement and interest after holding him liable for doing a decade's worth of business with fraudulent financial statements that overvalued his real estate holdings and hyped his wealth.
24% : The New York Attorney General's Office has objected to a lesser bond, arguing Trump and his co-defendants "will attempt to evade enforcement of the judgment or to make enforcement more difficult.
23% : Trump was also barred from leading any New York company for three years.

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