Trump's hush-money trial date is set. Here's what to expect.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The company that owns Trump's Truth Social went public on Tuesday with a price valuing the company at more than $9bn, netting Trump a paper fortune of more than $5bn and, according to Bloomberg, making him one of the 500 wealthiest people in the world for the first time.
51% : Trump said Monday that he'll put up the smaller bond amount, which is due 10 days from the ruling.
47% : Sidebar: Trump gets a break on his $454m bondAbout an hour before Trump's criminal trial in New York got back on track on Monday, he got some terrific news in another case that likely saved him from a significant financial blow.
46% : Trump can't sell those shares for a while, but the huge windfall could help him cover the $454m he owes after a judge found he inflated his assets in a civil business fraud case, and the combined $88m he's been ordered to pay E Jean Carroll for defaming her in a pair of civil cases.
40% : This doesn't mean Trump is off the hook - if he loses his appeal, he'll owe the full amount.
38% : Trump is facing 34 counts of falsifying business records, a class E felony.
36% : * Merchan also issued a gag order on Tuesday that bars Trump from making public statements about jurors, potential witnesses in the case, employees of the district attorney's office and the court or their family members (he exempted himself and Bragg from those prohibitions).
34% : "Cohen, who has turned on Trump, is expected to testify for the prosecution, and Daniels and McDougal may as well.
25% : Trump is clearly angry that the trial is back on track.
24% : According to prosecutors, Cohen paid $130,000 to Daniels and coordinated with the publisher of the gossip tabloid the National Enquirer to give McDougal $150,000, to keep their accounts of sexual encounters with Trump, which he denies, out of the headlines.
23% : Trump stands accused of diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars from his business to his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election in an attempt to conceal stories about extramarital affairs with adult actor Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, then falsely describing the expenses as legal costs in business documents.
22% : On the docket: What Trump's first criminal trial is all aboutIt's official: Donald Trump will become the first former president in US history to face a criminal trial.
10% : As Bragg put it when he charged Trump last April, Trump "repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.
10% : That morning, a panel of New York appellate court judges dramatically lowered the bond amount that Trump has to put up in order to appeal his civil business fraud case, dropping it from $454m to $175m.The surprise ruling makes it much easier for Trump to cover the bond without facing a major financial crisis.
10% : Clark, whom Trump attempted to elevate to attorney general in the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol riot, is also one of Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election interference criminal case.

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