
트럼프는 뉴욕에서 수년간의 비즈니스 사기 혐의로 책임을 지게 된 후, 자산이 압류되는 것을 막기 위해 1억 7500만 달러의 보증금을 납부했습니다. 이 보증금은 나이트 스페셜티 인슈런스 컴퍼니라는 회사를 통해 이루어졌으며, 이 회사는 억만장자 돈 행키가 소유한 여러 회사 중 하나입니다. 행키는 과거에 트럼프 타워와 마이애미의 골프 리조트 도랄에 대한 대출을 제공한 경험이 있으며, 트럼프가 재정 위기에 처했을 때 그를 도왔습니다. 행키는 이번 보증금 조치를 통해 트럼프의 자산이 압류되는 것을 막고, 트럼프가 사건에 대한 항소를 진행할 수 있는 시간을 벌어주었습니다.
한편, 트럼프의 자산 대부분은 이제 보증금 협약에 묶여 있으며, 이는 그의 비즈니스 확장 능력에 제한을 두게 됩니다. 트럼프는 이 보증금을 현금이나 담보를 통해 제공했으며, 그의 유동 자산은 주식, 채권, 은행 계좌에 있는 현금 등을 포함해 약 4억 달러로 추정됩니다.
또한, 트럼프가 관련된 '트루 소셜'이라는 회사의 주식 가치가 크게 하락하면서 트럼프의 순자산에서 10억 달러가 사라졌습니다. 이 회사는 재정적 손실을 경험했으며, 특히 2023년에는 운영 손실이 크게 증가했습니다. 이는 트럼프의 재정 상태에 추가적인 부담을 주고 있습니다.
요약하자면, 돈 행키의 나이트 스페셜티 인슈런스 컴퍼니가 1억 7500만 달러의 보증금을 통해 트럼프의 자산 압류를 일시적으로 막아주었고, 트럼프는 이 보증금을 현금과 담보로 제공했습니다. 한편, '트루 소셜'의 주가 하락으로 트럼프의 순자산이 크게 감소했습니다.
Trump posted a $175 million bond to prevent the seizure of his assets after being held liable for years of business fraud in New York. The bond was facilitated through Knight Specialty Insurance Company, owned by billionaire Don Hankey, who has previously provided financial assistance to Trump during financial crises. Hankey's intervention has temporarily prevented the seizure of Trump's assets, allowing him to pursue an appeal.
Most of Trump's assets are now tied up in bond agreements, limiting his ability to expand or even operate his business freely. The bond was secured through cash or collateral, with Trump's liquid assets including stocks, bonds, and cash in bank accounts estimated at around $400 million.
Additionally, Trump's net worth suffered a significant blow as the stock value of 'True Social', a company he's involved with, plummeted, erasing $1 billion from his net worth. The company has faced financial losses, with a marked increase in operational losses in 2023, adding further financial strain on Trump.
In summary, Don Hankey's Knight Specialty Insurance Company provided a $175 million bond to temporarily prevent the seizure of Trump's assets, secured through cash and collateral. Meanwhile, the plummeting stock value of 'True Social' significantly reduced Trump's net worth.
Forbes editor explains exactly how Trump posted his $175M bond - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiBur6Yy0TU
Transcript:
(00:00) Shortly after earlier tonight, we saw the judge in the criminal case releasing that expanded gag order in the civil fraud case here, the one where Trump was found liable for years of business fraud in New York. We have now learned that Trump has avoided financial disaster for the time being. He has posted a $175 million bond that prevents the New York attorney general from seizing any of his assets as he appeals that ruling.
(00:24) Here tonight is senior Forbes editor at Forbes, editor Dan Alexander. Deb, we're especially talking about true social and something else, but this breaking news just came down before the show. What do we know about how Trump secured this bond? Well, the company that helped him do it is called Knight Specialty Insurance Company.
(00:42) This is a company that's part of a group of companies owned by Don Hankey. There's another billionaire. He's worth about seven and a half billion dollars. Interestingly, Don Hankey is also the largest individual shareholder or was for several years and Access Financial, which provided two key loans for Trump against Trump Tower and his golf resort Doral down in Miami back when he was facing sort of that debt crisis around the time that he came out of office.
(01:09) So two times you see this billionaire stepping in and saying these are financial arrangements that I can do. I think that I can make money on these and essentially saving Trump. Well, that's pretty remarkable that it's coming from someone that he has has gone to before. Yeah, that's right. And, you know, Don Hank, he's kind of an interesting guy.
(01:31) He made his fortune in subprime auto loans. So this is somebody who's, you know, comfortable with lending money to people that other people wouldn't necessarily want to give money to. He's a strictly numbers guy who's going to look at this and say, okay, yeah, he's got the collateral. He's got the cash, which Trump does.
(01:49) I can do this bond and we're going to make money on it. And that's the end the story. And that's how Trump ultimately was able to secure this well on that front. You know, Trump had said a few things when this bond was reduced, when he couldn't pay what it was initially, but when it was reduced, he kind of had said he would use collateral or cash.
(02:07) And then he said pretty definitively one time leaving court that he was going to do it in cash. Do we know what was the case here? Well, this is a bond. So you would expect that it would be collateral that he opposed and not expected to collateral that he posted with no insurance was cash. And when I say cash, I mean liquid assets.
(02:27) So, you know, you could take stocks, you'd say bonds, you could take actually cash sitting in a bank account, all of which Trump has planted. But if you add all of that up to sort of a liquid assets category, you're looking at roughly $400 million for Donald Trump. And now between this one and the aging Carol, one, the majority of his cash is now tied up in these bond agreements.
(02:51) And so that's going to limit his ability to grow or expand his business, even to operate his business very freely. That's interesting. And I mean, essentially what this company is doing is saying that if he loses the appeal and he doesn't pay, that they will cover that $450 million judgment. I mean, but what this means as far as next steps is that the attorney general here could not take any action for four months against his properties until the appeal actually plays out.
(03:21) That's right. So Trump's properties will not be seized right now, which is really good news for him. You know, the attorney general had already started filing some documents that suggested that she might be going after even small assets that could have been really, really disastrous for Trump, because if she had started seizing small assets, selling them fire sale prices and then collecting little amounts of cash via several assets, all of a sudden his empire could have gotten a lot smaller, very, very fast.
(03:49) And now he's able to fold that off in hopes that he wins this appeal where he may be able to lower his judgment or something like that and be able to escape this without as much damage as he would have had if he had had to pay the initial judgment at the outset or if he had had to go through the fire sale process.
(04:07) Well, one thing we had talked about, you and I, when it was how is he going to pay the the half a billion dollar judgment that it clearly could. It was trip social and the fact that it was going public and it started trading and he kind of stood to get this massive windfall from it, even though, as you correctly predicted, you said it wasn't it didn't have the profitability that people were assuming it did.
(04:28) And when it actually went on the market, you predict that was going to change. I mean, we basically saw that play out today. Yeah, that's right. You know, the stock tanked today, wiped $1,000,000,000 off of Donald Trump's net worth in a day. But that had said, you know, a billion comes into play and goes these days to Donald Trump.
(04:46) He's going to have a very, very volatile fortune because so much of it is tied to this stock. Now, this thing is going to trade like a meme stock. So yesterday there was bad news. You know, they announced that they had lost a ton of money through 2023. Their revenues were declining on a quarterly basis. All the sorts of things that if you were a serious investor looking at the financials of this company would give you a lot of concern.
(05:09) However, in this case, you know, it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out over the long term. I wouldn't be shocked, you know, if the stock bounces right back up and then bounces back down and just sort of yo yos around because it's so divorced from the logic or the numbers, the financials of this company.
(05:26) And it's still although it came down a long way today, as a much longer way to go down before these numbers start making any sense. But I mean, all of this had to do is because this this is a $58 million loss last year after a $50 million gain in 2022. I mean, what does that how do people operate knowing what they know now, now that they can actually see the hard numbers about what truth social does or doesn't really have to offer? Yeah, well, the key numbers to look at here are what the operating profits are of this company.
(06:01) And what's really bad for Trump is that in the last quarter of 2023, the operating loss is roughly $5.3 million, which is up from its previous loss in the prior quarter of about $3 million. And that looks like it's the largest operating loss since this company has started taking in revenue. That's a real problem.
(06:20) Now, when you get to the bottom line, there's a bunch of sort of financial instruments in terms of debt, converted equity and that sort of stuff that goes into that final total. But if you look at the operating number, it's much cleaner number and it doesn't look good. Now, keep in mind the sorts of people who are really excited about this and investing in day one, Day two are not the sort of people who are going to be looking too, too closely at these numbers. Hmm.
(06:43) Dan Alexander, you called it. Thank you for joining us again tonight to talk about all that and the breaking news.
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