MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 02-23-2024-231000

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.4 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

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0:00.0	The clock has officially started.
0:04.0	Today the judge overseeing Donald Trump's civil fraud case
0:07.2	officially entered into the record an order
0:10.2	that forces Trump to pay the $454 million, including interest,
0:15.0	he owes the state of New York within the next 30 days.
0:19.0	Mr. Trump will also have to make a daily interest payment of $111,000 for each day he does not fork up the cash.
0:28.6	If you're doing the math at home here, that is another million dollars roughly every nine days.
0:34.9	Not long after that order came down today,
0:37.0	Trump's attorneys and the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit
0:39.4	filed a motion to request extra time
0:42.2	to pay the $83 million he owes in that case. Between these
0:47.0	two lawsuits Donald Trump is on the hook for more than half a billion dollars
0:51.3	and it is totally unclear if Donald Trump actually has that much money at
0:55.9	his disposal.
0:57.9	Trump claimed in a deposition last April that his business had 400 million dollars of cash hand, which is a lot of money.
1:05.0	But it is considerably less than what he owes right now.
1:09.0	New York Attorney General, Letitia James, has already said she will start seizing
1:13.6	Trump's assets if he does not pay. So Donald Trump is in a bind. He could try to
1:19.9	borrow the $454 million he owes New York State, but that would require someone to actually
1:25.9	lend Trump that much money.
1:29.0	And Donald Trump already owes a lot of money to a lot of people. We don't have a completely current
1:34.3	snapshot of Trump's finances but according to the financial disclosure forms
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