Trump Appeal Bond: A Russian Connection?

Enough here for media snoops to work on.

This is the company Trump just signed to cover his $92 million bond for Carroll rape case judgement so he can appeal:

Chubb Group, an international insurance provider, is insuring oil and gas extraction and transport in Russia, fueling Russia’s war on Ukraine. In fact, Chubb called Russian oil and gas “one of the most promising activities” of its Russian operations.

The insurer was recently backing Nord Stream 2, a massive, controversial natural gas pipeline built by Gazprom, the world’s largest producer of gas and a majority Russian state-owned fossil fuel company.

Following the invasion of Ukraine, more than 75 global organizations sent a letter to Chubb urging them to end the financing, investing, and insuring of companies in Russia’s coal, oil, and gas industries, and to divest from existing holdings. — Rainforest Action Network

From Russia to Brazil, Chubb is Insuring Deadly Oil and Gas Expansion
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58 thoughts on “Trump Appeal Bond: A Russian Connection?”

  1. craig, quid pro quo maybe via a chubby conduit?

     

    applicable is today’s cartoon “republicans helping putin” by Arend van Dam [who] studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam and went on to become an illustrator, comic artist and cartoonist according to Cagle..

    Attribution: Republicans helping Putin by Arend van Dam, politicalcartoons.com

  2. sorry, couldn’t repost last night’s SNL unless I paid for peacock’s $5.99 monthly subscription; but click here for a poor substitute and a prelude to tomorrow’s oscar show:

    Bill Maher emcees the 2nd annual Cojones Awards, for outstanding achievement in growing a pair.

     

    also an interesting discussion with de niro and bill in same show

    Oscar-winning actor and film producer Robert De Niro gets real about his feelings toward former President Donald Trump.

    “evil”… “idiot”… “bully”
    but, robert, tell us what you really really think of him.

  3. hurrah! well, kinda… one more or so to go alas.

    US government avoids shutdown after Senate approves $460bn in spending | US Senate | The Guardian

    The US government has narrowly avoided a partial shutdown after senators approved a $460bn package of spending bills before a midnight deadline that would have shuttered many key federal agencies.
    The Senate approved the six funding bills, which passed the House on Wednesday in a bipartisan vote of 339-85, on Friday evening, a vote that gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year.
    The package now goes to Joe Biden to be signed into law. Meanwhile, lawmakers are negotiating a second package of six bills, including defense, in an effort to have all federal agencies fully funded by a 22 March deadline.
    The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 75-22, as the chamber labored to get to a final vote just hours before the midnight deadline.
    “To folks who worry that divided government means nothing ever gets done, this bipartisan package says otherwise,” said the senate majority leader Chuck Schumer.
    He said the bill’s passage would allow for the hiring of more air traffic controllers and rail safety inspectors, give federal firefighters a raise and boost support for unhoused veterans, among other things.
    [continues]

  4. In 2018, Trump appointed Chubb’s CEO Evan Greenberg to a White House advisory committee for trade policy and negotiations.

    Chubb subsidiary, Federal Insurance Company, paid the bond. Chubb, in a statement, said it did not comment on “client-specific” information, but that it provided appeal bonds in the normal course of business:

    “These bonds are an ordinary and important part of the American justice system, protecting the rights of both defendants and plaintiffs. For defendants, appeal bonds ensure the opportunity to exercise the right to appeal an adverse judgement, which might otherwise be lost in the absence of a bond. For plaintiffs, appeal bonds ensure that they will receive the damages when an award is confirmed on appeal, eliminating the need to chase a defendant for payment. This guaranty provides peace of mind as a plaintiff awaits finality in the appeals process.” — Insurance Journal

     

  5. My big curiosity is ‘why bond now’?  If he does not have the cash, that is one thing, but according to him he has it. Is he planning on defaulting? What if anything was put on the line that is his?  Or is this another one of those special loans where he gets the cash and does not pay it back?

  6. Chubb has a separate company in Russia, according to the Association of European Businesses:

    Chubb Insurance Company of Russia is part of the Chubb Group of insurance and reinsurance companies. Chubb Insurance in Russia offers tailor-made insurance products secured by Chubb Group internal treaties to Russian clients having adequate Risk Management programs and requiring a western insurance product. One of the main goals for the Moscow office is to service the existing multi-national Chubb clients in Russia, whilst increasing domestic and multinational company accounts across the portfolio.

    Chubb’s Russian web site (use your web browser translator):
    https://www.chubb-insurance.ru/

  7. BlueB, all good questions I’m working on. For starters, nobody believed him when he said in a deposition that he had $400 million in cash. This bond seems to confirm that skepticism. Unfortunately the collateral Chubb demanded for the bond might not be made public, unless the plaintiff asks for it and the judge agrees. And you’re right, what does happen if he defaults? One scenario: it is forgiven and Russia covers the company’s loss, so long as Trump becomes president and hands over Ukraine to Putin.

    Next is the half-billion dollars he owes in the NY civil fraud case. Deadline for him to figure that out is March 25, the day jury selection starts in his first criminal case.

  8. Craig – yup.  I hit go fast button before finishing typing above.  One thought I had was that he is such a big risk for many issues, including right now he may no longer have any classified info to hand out, is the bond is a feeler.  Something to go fishing with to raise, or rather distribute the loss among many, of the large bond, and possibly future bonds.

  9. “… or is this another one of those special loans where he gets the cash and does not pay it back?”

    BB, could be it’s a paying-it-back by them to him for a few goodies already given and more promised.  although it’s more likely as craig wrote “Russia covers the company’s loss, so long as Trump becomes president and hands over Ukraine to Putin.”

    my bet is that the bigger chunk of change (the half billion) will come from pockets of the allegedly richest man in the world (vlad) and a runner up (elon – give or take what’s happening to spaceX and starlink gov’t wise). they’re both stakeholders in a second presidency of their useful idiot. 

  10. One thing for sure, how these bonds are getting funded had better be a major campaign question. Who he owes for this is a national security issue.

  11. Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann — “My guess: Trump may have someone like Elon Musk co-signing the Chubb bond, so the bank is comfortable being on the hook for the judgment. Same could happen for the bond for the AG $450M judgment.”

  13. Maggers will be fine with all of this. After all, what choice does he have? Witch-hunters made him do it. 

  14. Why then is PBS investigative reporting that we are still importing oil products that originated with Russian oil.?  This in spite of our ban on importing Russian oil and natural gas.  

    A reader would have to read the PBS News Hour investigative report to understand how all this happens; sort of using mirrors and skullduggery.  

    Either way, we remain consumers of Russian oil whilst we were on the road to oil independence.  Hate put a stop to our independence.  Filling your gas tank is akin to aiding and abetting the enemy.  Could be that PBS is full of do-do.

    Hi Craig and David
     

  15. All I know about the Chubb Group is that I’ve heard the name as the SPONSOR of shows on PBS. So, PBS investigating…

    However, what about all of the sanctions against Russia?  How does Chubb Group operate in that environment?

    Meanwhile, Rupert Murdock is engaged to the ex-mother-in-law of a Russian oligarch. 

    Orange Adolf is buddying up to Orban, and far-right monsters like Bannon want to see the US democracy destroyed and go the way of Hungary. 

    It’s a small world after all.
     
     
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/09/biden-trump-mar-a-lago-orban
     
     
    “Biden criticises Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meeting with Orbán”
    “Orban  of Hungary, who stated flatly he doesn’t think democracy works and is looking for dictatorship.”    He added: “I see a future where we defend democracy, not diminish it.”
     

    I hope E Jean and NY State get custody of his properties, so he can’t host the likes of Orban.

    If Melania isn’t a red sparrow, she should just contact the FBI and turn on the orange guy. She’s gotta know stuff.

    https://pbsfundingcredits.fandom.com/wiki/All_Sponsors_List

    Chubb sponsors “Antiques Road Show,”
    so not a news/info show.

  16. Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg sits on the board of a pro-Russia think tank Mueller investigated, Center for the National Interest.

    “The Mueller report also sheds light on interactions between Trump son-in-law and campaign adviser Jared Kushner and Dimitri Simes, the Russian-born director of the Center for the National Interest, a foreign policy think tank connected to the late former President Richard Nixon. Simes emigrated to the United States in 1973.

    Simes, who the report notes maintains high-level Russian connections, provided some behind-the-scenes advice and logistical support to the Trump campaign through Kushner, at one point facilitating a brief meeting between Trump, Kushner and Kislyak. According to the report, Kislyak told Kushner: “We like what your candidate is saying … it’s refreshing.”

    The report says Simes also provided Kushner with information about “‘highly questionable connections between [former president] Bill Clinton’ and the Russian government,” but both Simes and Kushner told the special counsel that the Trump campaign never did anything with the information.” — PBS.org

  17. Pilar, Howdy. I haven’t seen that PBS report. All I know is we’re producing more oil now than under Trump, the most in the world in fact.

  19. Thanks Ivy, that’s the most detail I’ve seen about Greenberg’s background. I love investigative teamwork! He certainly avoids the limelight, until now. 

  20. Eliot Spitzer went after Evan’s father Hank but before that, Hank was written about by Tom Brokaw in The Greatest Generation. 

    Greenberg, who is a member of the board of the Center for the National Interest, has devoted his life to defending the American freedoms represented by the courtroom, not only as a trained lawyer and corporate titan who built American International Group (AIG), but also through his service in World War II: he was awarded the French Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur in June 2014, the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Tom Brokaw singled him out as a member of the Greatest Generation, lauding his indomitable work ethic and keen understanding of Asia.

     
    https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-war-hank-greenberg-17890

  23. Craig, this too-tangled web is going to take a lot of unraveling. More to be revealed. 

  24. Hopping in the way back machine to the original Orange Adolph campaign where Orange junior said, “We can get all the money we need from Russia.”

     

  25. Easy to read between these lines.

    Viktor Orban statement: “We cannot interfere in other countries’ elections, but we would very much like to see President Donald Trump return to the White House and make peace in the eastern half of Europe”.

    In other words, ‘We are helping defeat Biden so that Trump can give Ukraine to Putin’

  26. Craig, this too-tangled web is going to take a lot of unraveling. More to be revealed. 

    Ivy. Yes. Still, I’m sure his campaign staff is not pleased he went with a company that has any ties to Russia, even if tangled.

    We could apply the Tucker/Hannity/Comer standard of “proof” for the “Biden Crime Family”. Just ask questions: How do we know Putin didn’t give Trump the money for his rape bond? Some say it’s possible, but many believe it’s true.

    Then, after asking the questions you state everything as fact with active verbs as though it’s been proven.

  28. Just ask questions: How do we know Putin didn’t give Trump the money for his rape bond? Some say it’s possible, but many believe it’s true. Then, after asking the questions you state everything as fact with active verbs as though it’s been proven.

    Craig, sounds like a plan. Now, how to get it on Fox and faux airwaves so the maggers can digest it? 

  31. this is the org that PBS cites in its reporting that Pilar mentioned, haven’t read this yet:
     
    https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/stop-russian-oil/eu-purchases-of-laundered-russian-oil-worth-an-estimated-11-billion-to-the-kremlin-in-2023/

    ok, read it, yes, India has been undermining Ukrainian resistance since the inception, it is known, they don’t GAF

    Turkey, too- Erdogan likes to play it from every side, that’s a power one gets by controlling the crossroads of the world

    i appreciate y’all digging deeper 🫡 ✌️ 🇺🇸

    more deeply

  34. Feed the GOP nominee a piece of fake intel and see where it ends up.    Orange Adolf is a traitor.  

  36. https://newrepublic.com/post/179692/idiot-back-trump-bond-e-jean-carroll-trial-evan-greenberg

    “And just Thursday, Trump was ordered to pay $382,000 in legal fees for Orbis Business Intelligence, the consulting firm owned by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.* Trump had sued Orbis over a dossier Steele compiled in 2016 that alleged Trump and members of his inner circle had been “compromised” by Russia’s security service.”
     
    Didn’t know about this one.

  37. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-e-jean-carroll-evan-greenberg/

    “One of the things I noticed when I was going through the bond today is that it actually only covers the appeal to the Second Circuit,” said Rubin, speaking to MSNBC’s Katy Tur. “It doesn’t cover any appeal that he would take from the Second Circuit if it affirms the jury’s verdict of $83.3 million. If he appeals further to the Supreme Court, he’s going to need somebody else to come in and provide that security if he takes that appeal further. Otherwise, he will owe her that money within a certain number of days.”

    “Former prosecutor Joyce Vance, who now teaches at University of Alabama School of law, posted on social media, “This is an important point. Trump is beholden to someone and we don’t know who. Reporters should ask him to explain all of the details. GOP leaders should, but probably won’t be, especially concerned.”

  38. Yeah, the anti-tRUMPsky ads should just end with Junior saying they can get all the money they want from Russia.  

  39. it was announced Europe no longer imported Russian oil.

    nope, just all the derivative products of it
     
    it’s very difficult embargo commodities, limited enforcement 

  40. http://swalwell.house.gov/issues/russia-trump-his-administration-s-ties

    This link is an oldie, but a goodie on tRUMPsky’s interaction with Russians:
    “This is either due to poor judgement or a deeper personal, financial, or political link between President Trump and Russia. It is not normal for the leader of our country to be so extensively tied to a foreign government that has sought to undermine democracies across the globe…”
     
    He was spewing the same anti-NATO garbage in 2016.   Putin has been playing the long game with a stupid, egotistical man-baby. 
     
     
     
     

  41. bId – I am convincing myself the ninety million dollar bond is to find out those with a stomach and wallet willing to give their money away.  Much like betting against the Harlem Globetrotters.  Those names will then be pooled for the half billion dollar bond.  All of this is just a continuation of the sfb grift of his life, use OPM, other peoples money.  You win, you lose, you never pay them back.

  42. Filipowski
    Trump rally today in Marge Greene’s district. The only place in GA today where you can’t have a gun.

  43. Craig:  You lit one too many fires.  He said, she said, they said, we said, who said; I’m out, ’cause I obviously have not a clue.  All I know is I am building a Maple dining table for cuz and the wood has more than doubled in price in the past year.

    One thing I do know, we are under invasion here in N.C., and it ain’t from the Southern Border.  We are being overrun by those Northerners who have escaped from all the mostly blue NE states and they have more money than sense.  Developers are clear cutting every living thing in sight and building crappy slab houses on postage size lots with a 10 foot property line offsett where those city folks can feel at home 10 feet from their neighbor.  Maybe it’s a little better here, “up there” they shared a 4 inch thick wall with nothing green in sight.

    Ask me what I really think.

    Not only that, the Northerns want to organize government and do things the way “they” did it up North!

    Do tell us, did President Trump leave a mess, or did Biden create the mess?  Has the entire World gotten into an economic mess, or are we the leaders of the World?  I hear the pundits saying Trump got the economic ball rolling and all Biden did was kick the ball down the road.

    I bought the property around my house so “those people” will not get a chance to tell me how I should live.  I live on a private road so I get to pay to have the road fixed; I really would rather fix it myself and don’t mind paying.

    I have too much time on my hands….the weather does not suit fishing. And, I’m writing too many subjects in the same post….it’s the manic driving me. Mike
     

  44. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/09/katie-britt-unrelated-sex-trafficking-story-state-of-the-union-rebuttal.html
     

    “The journalist Jonathan Katz first pieced together Britt’s presentation of Jacinto Romero’s experience in a TikTok video.
    Britt seemingly attempted to present the anecdote as a damning example of Biden’s border management.”

    “We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a third-world country,” she added. “President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace. This crisis is despicable.”

    “The victim Britt referenced was Karla Jacinto Romero, who was sex trafficked in Mexico from 2004 to 2008, twenty years before Biden became president.”

     
     
    So, white nationalist spokesmodel, Katie Britt, is a liar.  Her tearful story about a woman being sex trafficked in the US happened while George W Bush was President…and it happened in Mexico.  Did the crucifix hanging around her neck leave a scorch mark?

    They hide behind Bibles, crosses, children (or embryos), and not a one of them can be trusted.
     
     
     

  45. conservative voters concern about trump sanity starting at 6:32

    President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are holding dueling rallies in the battleground state of Georgia today. Eugene Daniels and Sarah Longwell weigh in on how the two presidential candidates are creating contrast to the other.

  47. Orange Adolf has “big lunatic energy.”  Yep!Age doesn’t always come with wisdom.  

  48. ok i won’t argue with trumpers here for the entire rest of election season ✋ 

    been there, done that, GOTV

  49. When I moved to Texas, there was a ~joke~ that  I was the third least favorite kind of person to move here.  “A yankee with a U-Haul.”

    First and second place lines in the ~joke~ were were racist.

  50. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/09/europe/putin-russia-election-repression-intl/index.html
     
    “…Oleg Orlov, a 70-year-old who was on trial for “discrediting the army.
    Orlov’s so-called crime was committed just over a year earlier, when he  published an article in a French online newspaper titled “They Wanted Fascism, They Got It.”

    “They will imprison old people, they will imprison people who have disabilities. They will imprison people with children, women with children,” Korolenko told CNN. “They just want everyone to be silent.”
    “The wartime censorship laws — discrediting the army, or the more serious offense of knowingly spreading “false” information about the army — have turned social media into a minefield.”

    “Platforms are closely monitored by the FSB, which acts as Russia’s secret service, said Konstantin Eggert, an exiled Russian journalist who was among many added to Russia’s ever-growing list of “foreign agents” last year. He believes the grip on social media will tighten further.”
     
     
    “The war finally allowed Putin and his crowd to introduce a uniform ideology in Russia, which they always dreamt of introducing, but they could not do it because they were supposed to play democracy,” he said in an interview with CNN. “They do not have to hide anymore what they really want.”

  52. Biden making fun of Trump doing his rally with MTG: “You can tell a lot about a guy by who he hangs out with”

    I like how he handles protester: “I don’t resent your passion. I hear you”. Better than Trump urging they get beat up and he’ll pay the lawyers 

  53. Republicans always say their president “got the economy ball rolling” right after they’ve wrecked the economy and sent the deficit ball soaring. 

    lol

  54. Dems really need to do a timeline reminder on the traitor tRUMPsky v President Biden.  

    They also need to understand that those stimulus checks were Nancy Pelosi’s and Dems doing…and that the Groupies Of Putin blocked the way as much as they could, because they don’t care if their constituents suffer and/or die. (Repugz will make an exception for corporate welfare.)

  55. Appears sfb just gave more to the Jeanne Carroll happy fund. He finally broke down and slimed her again.  Five begets eighty-three. What is next?

  56. BB – Good!  I hope she keeps winning!
     
    Adolf really can’t read the room.  He’s invited disenfranchised Dems to become MAGAts. Ha!
    And, he chastised and shunned Nikki Hayley’s supporters.   
    His syphilitic brain is turning to mush. 

  57. https://www.nj.com/news/2024/03/did-donald-trump-just-defame-e-jean-carroll-again-heres-what-he-said.html

    “One day after posting a $91 million bond that allows him to appeal a defamation judgment he owes writer E. Jean Carroll, former President Donald Trumpmight have defamed her again and opened himself up to a third lawsuit over a sexual assault allegation.”

    ”At a rally on Saturday night in Rome, Ga., Trump didn’t mention Carroll by name, but it was clear he was talking about the civil lawsuits she bought against him — and won.”

    “I I just posted a $91 million bond,” Trump told the rally audience, “91 million, on a fake story totally made up. So, think of it … 91 million.”

    “I could say things about what it would cost normally. Ninety-one million based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn’t know, never heard of. I know nothing about her. She wrote a book. She said things. And when I denied it — I said, ‘It’s so crazy. It’s false’ — I get sued for defamation.”
     
     

    He didn’t call her by name, but it’s clear he could only have been talking about her.

    May that be a lesson to those who help him, like those who bonded him out yesterday. He’s a liar. He’s a loser. He taints everything he touches.

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