Donald Trump was supposed to have to post a $464 million bond by Monday or else the state of New York could begin collecting on the massive civil fraud judgment leveled against him earlier this year. An appeals court bailed him out, blocking collection of the judgment and giving the former president 10 days to post a drastically reduced $175 million bond.
The order is a huge win for Trump, whose assets were going to be subject to seizure if he couldn’t post nearly half-a-billion dollars by Monday. His lawyers said last week he wasn’t going to be able to come up with the money after 30 underwriters rejected him. The New York Times has reported that Trump is expected to be able to scrounge the new, reduced $175 million bond
He’s already posted a reaction post to Truth Social which fawns over the Appeals Court ruling. I don’t trust the words if he says he can pay, but I trust that he would be whining like a toddler in time-out right now if he couldn’t. So he’ll probably be able to pay.
Until he thinks “wait a minute, I whined and whined and they reduced the bond. Maybe if I continue whining and whining they’ll reduce it more.”