No one wants to help out poor old billionaire Donald Trump.

Donald Trump still hasn’t posted bond in his New York civil fraud trial, but his lawyer Alina Habba wants you to know that it’s definitely not because they’re having trouble getting the massive amount together.

The former president was fined $354 million for committing real estate–related fraud in New York. In order to appeal the decision, Trump must post a bond of the full amount plus interest—which has already reached nearly $467 million, with interest adding $112,000 per day.

When asked Wednesday if Trump was any closer to posting bond, Habba had a very clear answer that raised no red flags.

“Yeah, no, unfortunately I can’t speak to that. That’s privileged, and I am the attorney, one of the attorneys on that case,” Habba told Fox News, stating the obvious.

She quickly pivoted to attacking the case altogether, calling the judgment “absurd” and expressing hope that an appeals court would overturn it.

  • FuglyDuckEnglish
    56•9 months ago

    Can’t. it’s a state civil trial. presidents can’t do that.

    Really, the only way he can make this go away is to shut up and pay.

    And he’s constitutionally incapable of either.

    • @thesporkeffect
      34•9 months ago

      He can’t legally, but that’s not a major impediment for him

      • @APassenger
        20•9 months ago

        If he’s president he can do a variety of things “legally” that benefit moneyed interests in the US or elsewhere.

        If his son in law can get a billion dollar loan, trump can too.

        If the house is Republican led, there could be no real repurcussuons except in an election.

        • @mPony
          6•9 months ago

          an election

          oh like you’ll get one of those again

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        11•9 months ago

        Nope. In 30 days or whatever it is now, if he doesn’t put it up. Chubb pays for him seizes whatever collateral was put up.

        It’s probably his real estate because it’s the only thing he has of significant value.

        It is possible that Chubb didn’t cut him any favors and it really “just is” business. If they took say 2x in collateral, depending on the contract, they could make quite a bit of bank on that deal- or whatever they figured it was overvalued by.

        • Billiam
          32•9 months ago

          Chubb put up the appeals bond for his defamation trial.

          This is talking about the appeals bond for his fraud trial. Chubb (currently) has no stake in that one and Trump (currently) hasn’t posted a bond for that. He has until March 25th to do so or else the state of New York is gonna be getting $400 million of new real estate.

          And they won’t use Trump’s fraudulent valuations, either.

          • FuglyDuckEnglish
            15•9 months ago

            Ah. Even simpler then. When it expires it goes to collections and the state starts seizing assets. Either way… that’s unlikely to not be resolved before he’s the president.

          • @[email protected]English
            13•9 months ago

            My money is on this stalling being so the Truth Social merger goes through and he can loan against his stake there, that or sell shares. The preliminary valuation puts Trumps part of the post-merger company at up to $4 billion, which is absurd but also he does have an extremely specific demographic completely captured over there. It’s marketing gold for unscrupulous companies and niche stuff that won’t ever sell to city Dems, like truck nuts and tacticool gear.

          • @baru
            6•9 months ago

            Chubb put up the appeals bond for his defamation trial.

            There’s an article which explains that the financial document says it’ll take months for that bond to be valid and it has various ways to get out of the “bond”. Meaning, they were trying to get the judge to sign off on a bond which wasn’t a bond.