'They Were Laughing': Eric Trump Complained Bond Companies Refused to Help Ex-President Pay Bond as Billionaire Donors Were Reportedly Preparing to Bail Him Out

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump stands to gain $3 billion from his social media platform Truth Social when it goes public in the coming months.
52% : However, she granted Trump a 30-day reprieve that ended on Monday, March 25.
45% : Following his financial statement, Trump reportedly gained approximately $186.8 million from selling the lease on his Washington hotel in May 2022 and the management rights to a New York City golf course in June 2023.
44% : Still, it is a contrast from the $558 million in collateral for the original bond, which Trump would have been required to pay to surety companies, according to his attorneys.
43% : In a recent legal filing, Trump's attorneys argued that the massive sum to secure the bond for the appeal was extreme, stating that enforcing such an exceptional requirement was unfair to Trump.
42% : He bragged that Trump was a transformative figure who helped build New York's skyline and demanded better from his Republican backers.
39% : Trump was ordered to pay the massive fine after being found liable for inflating the value of his New York real estate, including his hotels and golf clubs while manipulating his taxes and defrauding banks and insurers for decades.
39% : Last year, Trump stated he had approximately $400 million in cash reserves, which stood to be depleted by his extraordinary legal penalties.
38% : Attorney General Letitia James could have enforced the $454 million judgment against Trump once it became final last month.
36% : In a defiant post to Truth Social last week, Trump said he was willing to sell some of his properties for cheap "fire sale" prices in order to pay the fine, and then took aim at Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron for the historic ruling against him.
33% : Since the civil fraud verdict, the former president has been hard-pressed to pay the penalty as well as a separate judgment issued in a defamation case brought by author E. Jean Carroll, in which Trump owes another $83 million.
31% : Yet, an appeals court ruled Monday that Trump only had to pay a $175 million bond within 10 days to appeal the judgment, which Trump then said he would "abide by.
26% : For weeks, speculation has swirled over whether Trump has the means to cover the spiraling fines, given his apparent struggles to pay after he bragged for years about being one of the world's wealthiest billionaires.
25% : Trump said that he may not currently have enough money readily available as cash to post the required bond, although his family has not acknowledged this publicly.
22% : In other words, he is trying to take my Appellate Rights away from me," Trump wrote, accusing the judge of election interference.
19% : Billionaire donors were willing to help Donald Trump with the multimillion-dollar bond he would have had to raise to appeal his civil fraud judgment awarded to the state of New York, according to a new report.
14% : During the March 24 news segment, Eric Trump accused the billionaire bondholders of conspiring to ruin Trump financially.

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