A New York appeals court on Monday agreed to hold off collection of former President Donald Trump’s $454 million civil fraud judgment — if he puts up $175 million within 10 days.

If he does, it will stop the clock on collection and prevent the state from seizing his assets while he appeals.

Delay. Delay. Delay.

  • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Not particularly, because reducing the appeals bond means that Trump can delay the trial even longer - which is the plan. Pretty much everyone sees that his plan from the beginning has been to push back and delay as long as possible, preferably until he’s either confirmed as the Republican nominee (in which case he can beat the wardrum of “oh this is a political witch hunt, you can’t sue a major political candidate”) or, more preferably, he wins the election, in which case I’m sure the DOJ will move double-quick to find a way for him to not have to pay a cent to anyone.

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        9 months ago

        They’re not supposed to answer to the DOJ.

        Seems that whenever Trump is involved, a lot of things that aren’t supposed to happen keep happening.