Trump post $175M bond to avert asset seizure during NY appeal; gag order expanded

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : They said most bonding companies require collateral covering 120% of the amount owed.Trump recently claimed to have almost a half-billion dollars in cash -- along with billions of dollars worth of real estate and other assets -- but said he wanted to have some cash available for his presidential run.
55% : Trump could eventually generate cash by selling some of the nearly 60% of stock he owns in his newly public social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group -- but that would be a longer-term play.
54% : If Trump wins, he won't have to pay the state anything and will get back the money he has put up now.
53% : The bond Trump is posting with the court now is essentially a placeholder, meant to guarantee payment if the judgment is upheld.
52% : In addition to the $175 million he had to put up in the New York case, Trump has posted a bond and cash worth more than $97 million to cover money he owes to writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals verdicts in a pair of federal civil trials.
50% : Trump's lawyers had fought the gag order and its expansion, arguing that Trump was engaging in protected political campaign speech.
43% : Trump denies any wrongdoing, saying the statements actually lowballed his fortune, came with disclaimers and weren't taken at face value by the institutions that lent to or insured him.
38% : In February, Trump paid the $392,638 in legal fees a judge ordered him to cover for The New York Times and three reporters after he unsuccessfully sued them over a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 story about his family's wealth and tax practices.
36% : NEW YORK -- Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond on Monday in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals, according to a court filing.
35% : In March, a British court ordered Trump to pay to pay legal fees of 300,000 pounds ($382,000) to a company he unsuccessfully sued over the so-called Steele dossier that contained salacious allegations about him.
35% : "A violation could result in Trump being held in contempt of court, fined or even jailed.
31% : Trump denies wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
28% : Judge Juan M. Merchan said the original gag order -- barring Trump from making public statements about jurors, witnesses and others connected to the case -- did not include his family members, but subsequent attacks warranted including them.
27% : Trump is now also barred from commenting publicly about the family of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, though he is still free to go after Bragg, the elected Democrat whose office is prosecuting the case.
26% : Trump criticized Merchan and Merchan's daughter, a Democratic political consultant, in a series of Truth Social posts last Wednesday, a day after the judge issued his original gag order.
24% : Trump said those claims were false.
20% : Trump is fighting to overturn a judge's Feb. 16 finding that he lied about his wealth as he fostered the real estate empire that launched him to stardom and the presidency.
18% : Gag order expandedThe judge in Trump's April 15 hush-money criminal trial declared his daughter off-limits to the former president's rancor on Monday, expanding a gag order days after Trump assailed and made false claims about her on social media.
15% : Prosecutors had urged Merchan to clarify or expand his gag order after Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform last week that Loren Merchan "makes money by working to 'Get Trump,'" and wrongly accused her of posting a social media photo showing him behind bars.

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