Subject: Re: Just the Hardest Client to Represent
not sure why this is a bad tactic, just likely ineffective.

Trump's lawyers just filed a motion with the appellate court asking them to stay the judgment, on the grounds that it was impossible for Trump to obtain a bond. And that requiring him to post the judgment amount would result in undue hardship because he would have to sell assets at "fire sale" prices resulting in irreversible business losses.

But then he goes onto social media and says he has $500 million in cash. Which means he could get a bond. Or just deposit $464 million in the court register. And which means, therefore, that many of the arguments that he just had his lawyers make to the appellat panel are misleading, and arguably just false.

So this is bad for a few reasons. First, it makes it far less likely that his motion to stay the judgment and avoid the bond will be granted. Second, this is the same court that will hear his appeal - and he's starting out with them by basically lying to them about his financial situation. When he's appealing a judgment finding that he committed fraud about his financial situation. And finally, it's yet another instance where he makes his lawyers look terrible, because at the end of the day they were the ones who signed their names to the motion filled with factual assertions about how Trump's assets were illiquid and weren't practical for securing a bond and would have to be sold at fire sale prices to comply with the judgment. Which makes it just that much harder for any competent lawyer to ignore their better judgment and work for Trump in the future.