(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Why is Trump hoarding cash? [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-05-21 This is my first diary, please be relatively kind. The following is speculation simply based on some things that look odd to me about what Trump has been doing lately. I was thinking about what Trump has been doing this election cycle that is different from the 2020 cycle. I realized that the entire feel of the election is different.Trump is acting completely different than he did four years ago. Sure you can chalk it up to the legal issues but I think there might be more involved. In 2020 Trump held rallies, spent money on advertisements and even had field offices in some states. He seemed motivated to win and even articulated some policies before the election. As the incumbent I think he felt he didn't need to do as much as he did in 2016. Trump took in almost $800M in the 2016 election cycle and over $400M in the 2020 cycle. Forget the various PACs and campaign funds. To Trump they were simply different colored piggy banks. These totals include outside spending but some of the vendors look pretty odd in the breakdown. I think it's reasonable for him to assume there would be a significantly large amount in the 2024 cycle. The numbers haven't worked out that way so far for him unfortunately mainly due to drops in small donations. However several things have stood out in my mind that are different than his previous candidacies. 1) He slapped a 5% fee on all fundraising by the RNC along with individual candidates if they use his name. This is something that has never been done before. It's difficult to campaign without using your party's Presidential candidate's name at some point. He shuffled the RNC to make sure it worked by putting Lara in. 2) Trump's expenditures are considerably lower for this campaign than in 2020. It's almost impossible to tell that he even has a campaign in progress. Legal fees seem to account for quite a bit. 3) He literally asked fossil fuel companies for a $1B donation up front in return for promised benefits. This has never been done this openly either in the recent past. Ostensibly the money would go to the campaign, but remember the piggy banks. It sounds like it didn't work but unless someone puts out the numbers there's no way to be sure. 4) Truth Social. The six month exclusion period ends before the election. Trump was almost pulling out what little hair he had when it looked liked it would be delayed putting the restriction period after the election. In addition something, or someone, is currently propping up the stock of DJT. 5) Except for the New York trial it looks like the other three trials will take place after the election. The funds have reported millions in legal fees but there's no way to determine the actual amounts paid out at this time. 6) He's selling anything he can think of such as sneakers and Bibles. 7) He agreed to two debates with Biden that, from his standpoint, make no sense at all. So we're back to what looks like Trump hoarding cash over a fairly short period. His judgments are bonded for the most part so they will likely be paid by others who would then have to collect from him. From the reports he isn't restricted from selling the securities in the Schwab account. We know that at least some of his many LLCs are based offshore. We don't know the status of the equity in his real estate but based on his statements and his attorney's statements during the bonding issues that it appears there isn't much equity in his US holdings. Now the speculation. What if Trump doesn't intend to stay in the US after the election if he loses? More speculative, what if he doesn't intend on staying here at all? The above actions would make sense if he was setting up to go elsewhere. He has cash, he has his own long distance plane and he has connections in several countries in the Middle East, most importantly the UAE. He has property in Dubai. No extradition treaty and with money he can block them from voluntarily extraditing him. Bribes always work in some places. DJT stock can be transferred into holding companies and sold off slowly enough to not completely crash the price. A reasonably large amount could be sold before the election. If his judgments are cleared by the bonds there wouldn't be anyone going after the stock. Even with the indictments there won't be any monetary issues so the holding companies would be fine. Even his foreign properties would be fine. I realize that there are aspects to this that argue against his leaving, mainly his personality, but maybe he is ready to spend his time golfing and not worrying about things. He would still have sycophants in Dubai as long as he had money. The Trump Organization would still be around, until Eric and Don Jr. drive it into the ground. So there would be some money there. Anyway, I thought I would give publishing a try. Worst that could happen is that I end up in a fetal position protecting my vitals from the circling vultures. Seriously, take it for what it is, an idea and not a prediction. 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