Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that he now has nearly $500 million cash on hand ahead of the Monday deadline to post bond for the $454 million judgment against him in the New York civil business fraud case.
The former president’s lawyers requested a stay on the massive civil fraud judgment, which they said securing the bond for would be “a practical impossibly,” but a New York appeals court rejected the request. Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered Trump to post the bond by Monday, Fox News reported.
Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday morning that “through hard work, talent, and luck,” he has nearly $500 million cash on hand, saying that he had “intended to use” the money for his 2024 presidential campaign.
“The often overturned political hack judge on the rigged and corrupt A.G. case, where I have done nothing wrong, knew this,…
