During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance claimed
Donald Trump is not making the lives of his attorneys any easier as they move into a critical week in the courts . As the former president scrambles to come up with the nearly half billion dollars he needs for his financial fraud appeals bond and he is slated to be in a Manhattan court on Monday to see when his hush money trial will start up, the former prosecutor stated his recent antics are creating new problems . Speaking with host Ali Velshi, who noted the former president claimed on Truth Social that he is flush with cash while also pleading poverty to the appeals court he wants to lower his bond amount, Vance marveled at the chaos the former president is creating. ALSO READ: Here's why conservative elites are bailing on Trump now "Imagine being one of his lawyers and saying one thing in your court papers and having your client undercut you publicly the next day on Truth Social," she began. "The judges are certainly entitled to take a look at Trump's posts in this vein and it would be fair to deny him any sort of measures for forgiveness of the full amount of the bond in the form of the surety bond he has asked for simply because he says he can afford it and he chooses not to." "And I think we have reached a point with Trump where judges should hold him accountable for his words rather than letting him get away with having it one way in court and one way in public," she added. "We are past the point in time where the courts can afford to let that happen." "To your point, there is a little bit more to executing the judgment than showing up with a sheriff," she added. "I think what [New York AG] Tish James has done, has made it clear she is serious, particularly by registering the judgments in Westchester County,
New York where some of the Trump family favorite properties including the National
golf Course are located. So she is sending a signal if he does not get a bond in place she intends to go forward." Watch below or at the link. MSNBC 03 24 2024 10 08 48 youtu.be Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) lashed out at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after House
Republicans passed a bipartisan government funding bill. "Republicans and the House of Representatives, where we hold on to a razor-thin majority," Greene told
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. "But yet this week, Speaker Johnson, who has barely been a speaker for six months, led us to a complete catastrophe." Greene blasted the bill passed to fund the government before excoriating Johnson for allowing Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) to retire without leaving time for a special
election to replace him. "You're right, Maria, and those people stepping down early and leaving are the ones that are leaving us at risk of the
Democrats controlling the majority, not me," Greene said. "I filed this motion to vacate , but I haven't called it to the floor," she continued. "This is like issuing a pink slip and giving our conference a notice saying that we have got to find a new speaker." ALSO READ: Marjorie Taylor Greene to federal election regulators: get bent over 'MTG' Greene said that finding a new speaker "may take months, and it may not even happen until next Congress, but Speaker Johnson cannot remain a speaker of the House." "Speaker Johnson has also failed our majority because he is allowing Mike Gallagher to leave
Congress after the deadline date, where his district cannot hold a special election and elect a new representative for the rest of this entire Congress," she ranted. "Mike Gallagher betrayed all of us, and Speaker Johnson, as the one who's responsible for our majority, praised Mike Gallagher on Friday after he announced his departure, saying that he's great and praising him and thanking him for his service in Congress," Greene added. "Speaker Johnson should be forcing Mike Gallagher to leave early so that his district can hold a special election, and any strong
Republican speaker of the House would expel a member for leaving our razor-thin majority in such a delicate, delicate state. We cannot allow this." Watch the video below from Fox News or at the link . CONTINUE READING Show less Eric Trump said top insurance executives laughed when he asked for more than $400 million in bond money for his father. During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump to clarify how much his father owes in bond payments to appeal his New York fraud case. "I'm trying to understand how this number came about, $454 million or $464 million, and what the real number is," Bartiromo said. "You know what?" Trump ranted. "It was a crooked number. There are no victims. There is no number. The number should be zero." ALSO READ: 11 ways Trump doesn't become president "This is extraordinary," he continued. "No one's ever seen a bond this size. Every single person, when I came to them saying, hey, can I get a half-billion-dollar bond?" "Maria, they were laughing. They were laughing. Top executives of the largest surety companies had never seen anything of this size. And what, they're going to start seizing assets if he can't put up something that's not available in the United States?" Watch the video below from Fox News or at the link . CONTINUE READING Show less The co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" had a hard time stopping laughing as one of Donald Trump's biographers explained how the former president found himself in the position of facing having his assets seized on Monday at the same time a court date will likely be set for his hush money trial . Speaking with hosts Michael Steele, Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders-Townsend, writer and biographer Tim O'Brien kicked off his explanation of Trump's legal travails by saying of the former president "He dumb" which set off the outburst of laughter. O'Brien told the hosts, "You mentioned at the top of the show about Trump , that 'he broke.' He's also, he dumb, And what we found out over this past week, particularly this cash situation, under oath a year ago he said I have $400 million and I'm adding to it monthly and then suddenly you come up to this judgment and you say 'Actually, I don't have it' ... He then takes to
Social Media and said 'Actually, I have $500 million.' That had to make his attorneys pull out their hair and that is because he is ignorant and unsophisticated and he is not a good person, now in a courtroom where he is going to be put on the stand and held accountable for the fact pattern. " ALSO READ: Here's why conservative elites are bailing on Trump now "In this particular case, there is a tape recording of him directing
Michael Cohen to get the money from the CFO so they can pay hush money. When he's on the stand, he doesn't stick to the script that he tends to brag and bloviate," he added. "That is going to hound them during this court proceeding; they have to be worried about that." Watch below or at the link . MSNBC 03 24 2024 09 20 48 youtu.be CONTINUE READING Show less