Takeaways from Donald Trump's wild day of legal developments

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : "It will be my honor to post," Trump said, adding he will post "whatever is necessary, whether it be cash, or security or bonds.
48% : But the appeals court ruling gave Trump an additional 10 days to post a bond of $175 million, a number the former president said he would be able to come up with.
47% : Trump told reporters he will cover the bond using cash as a collateral.
40% : "When questioned by a reporter, Trump then said he will use cash for collateral.
39% : Trump faced a Monday deadline to post bond or else New York Attorney General Letitia James could have begun the process of seizing his property.
39% : The ruling is a major victory for Trump, staving off the prospect, for now, of James seeking to seize the former president's property to enforce the judgement against him.
37% : Trump already posted a $91 million bond this month while he appeals the defamation judgment against him in the case brought by E. Jean Carroll.
37% : Trump didn't speak inside the courtroom Wednesday, but he still had plenty of chances to make his views of Monday's developments known.
35% : Donald Trump received both a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the first criminal trial of a former president in US history, a pair of rulings that hit home the legal whiplash constantly surrounding him.
35% : Once Trump posts the $175 million bond, enforcement of the civil fraud judgment against the former president, his sons and their company is paused until at least September.
33% : For Trump, however, the more significant ruling Monday may have been a New York appeals court allowing him to post a reduced $175 million bond as he appeals the $464 million New York civil fraud judgment against him, his adult sons and his company.
33% : Trump was charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying business records stemming from reimbursements to Cohen for hush money payments he made before the 2016 election to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump.
31% : He wants to get it started so badly," Trump said.
24% : Trump has attempted to delay all four criminal trials until after November's election -- in the event they aren't dismissed entirely.
20% : Here are the takeaways from another historic day for Trump:Barring another unforeseen hiccup, never something to rule out when Trump is involved, the former president will face a jury on criminal charges for at least one of his trials before the November electionMonday's hearing was to consider Trump's motion to dismiss the charges and sanction the Manhattan District Attorney's Office after the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York turned over tens of thousands of documents earlier this month related to the 2018 federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and fixer.

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