It turns out that Trump may have called in a major favor: Court records filed Friday show that the bond was guaranteed by the Chubb Corporation, an insurance group. In 2018, Trump appointed Chubb’s CEO Evan Greenberg to a White House advisory committee for trade policy and negotiations.

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    Why would any corporation allow this and not instantly fire the CEO?

    “Hey board, I just tied up a huge chunk of cash, with no possible return on investment, did I do good?”

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      Given the company is worth over $100b I don’t even think something this value would be mentioned to the board, let alone concern them when they just bought a potential president for cheap

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        People would be shocked at how often insurance agencies are the backers/owners of personal loans. It’s a bread and butter investment for them.

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        Yeah, talk about an extreme possible return on investment - pocket change for a POTUS.

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        91 Million is a write-off for them. Not a tax write off (they don’t pay taxes already, obvs), an accounting write-off. Like at the end of the year they just go, “looks like we lost 91 million somehow. Oh well, subtract it from 100 billion and continue laughing

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          They are a Trump appointee… I bet the correlation there between those who, upon being investigated, end up proven dirty, will be astonishingly high.

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          Uh… no? It seems the price of admission to be Putin’s lapdog though - he will help you, if you help him, but he also wants dirt on you first. He even provided all the necessary materials - the hotel room, prostitutes, camera, and videographer, he’s so helpful that way!:-D

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      Probably when trump appointed him he made the company a ton of money. And maybe they are hoping did that again.