A New York appeals court has given Donald Trump 10 more days to post his bond as he appeals the civil fraud judgment against him and cut the amount necessary to $175 million.
It’s a major lifeline for the former president, who, along with his adult sons and his company, were fined more than $464 million, including interest, after Judge Arthur Engoron found Trump and his co-defendants fraudulently inflated the value of his assets.
The ruling staves off the prospect, for now, of New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking to seize the former president’s property to enforce the judgment against him. Trump had been struggling to come up with the means to post a bond of more than $500 million, the total that he would have needed before Monday’s appellate decision.
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The ruling stated that the $175 million bond will be in place until at least September, meaning James won’t be able to seek to enforce the judgment against Trump until then.
2 days ago he claimed publicly he had 500 millions cash… Why cut him a break when, by his own statement, he can pay his own bond or back it up?
This is nothing but special treatment… Bear in mind they also loosened a ton of other conditions: grifter kids don’t have to pay their $5 million bonds either, they can continue to first in NY until appeal , etc… none of those have anything to do with your justification for lowering the bond