How Broke and Desperate Is Donald Trump?

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Donald Trump is desperately looking for help to raise the 464 million dollar bond he has to put up for his New York civil fraud case. Joe Biden makes another big push on climate and student loans. Democrats try to keep voters of color from defecting to Trump. And later, Strict Scrutiny co-host Leah Litman joins the pod to talk with Dan about the latest Trump legal developments and the border war between Texas and the federal government.

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favreau. I'm Dan Fifer.
0:23.2	On today's Pod, Joe Biden makes another big push on climate and student loans.
0:27.6	Democrats try to keep voters of color from defecting to Trump, and later,
0:31.9	strict scrutiny's Leah Lippman stops by to catch us up on. to
0:33.9	and later strict scrutiny's Leah Lippman stops by to catch us up on all the Trump legal developments
0:36.6	as well as the border war between Texas and the federal government.
0:40.3	But first, Donald Trump's first full week is the presumptive Republican nominee, has not gone as well as you'd think for the famously disciplined political savant.
0:52.0	And you don't have to take our word for it a senior
0:54.0	Trump advisor told the staff it had been a bad press week for the campaign this is
0:59.2	according to political since clinching the nomination Trump has floated cuts to Social Security and Medicare,
1:05.3	teased a national abortion ban, promised to pardon violent insurrectionists who he
1:10.8	now salutes at his rallies, said that some immigrants quote aren't people
1:15.3	and claimed that any Jewish person who votes for Democrats quote hates their
1:19.3	religion he also hasn't yet won over Nicki Haley's voters, as evidenced in this week's primaries by the nearly 20% of the vote she got without even being in the race.
1:28.0	And Trump's got some cash issues.
1:30.0	We found out this week that his campaign in the RNC raised less than half of what Biden and the DNC did last quarter and his super PAC has now spent more than 50 million dollars on his legal fees without much to show for it because Trump is currently
1:45.8	scrambling to find someone anyone who will help him out with the
1:50.2	464 million dollar bond he has to put up for the New York civil fraud case judgment.
1:57.7	He doesn't have the cash, can't find an underwriter, doesn't want to sell his assets and is reportedly worried about the political
2:05.4	perception of declaring bankruptcy. So where will he get the money? Here's one of
2:11.1	his lawyers on Fox. Is there any effort on the part of your team to secure this money through another country?
2:17.0	Saudi Arabia or Russia as Joy Behar seems to think?
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