The many reasons Trump’s $91.6 million bond should vex voters
Owing a fortune to anyone, but especially foreign interests that do business in Russia, is a national security nightmare.
By David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter
The $91.6 million bond that Donald Trump posted in federal court Monday raises troubling new questions about the presumptive Republican nominee’s fitness to serve again as president.
Among them: How might Trump’s debts influence his actions as president? Who might exert leverage over him? Would he look the other way at wrongful acts by his creditors? How could national security decisions be influenced by his being deeply in debt to a foreign company?