Donald Trump struggles to make $454 million bond in the civil fraud case

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump's lawyers tell a New York appeals court he's unable to find a company to underwrite his bond for the judgment against him in his civil fraud case. Trump’s attorneys said he has approached 30 underwriters to back the bond, all of them rejected him. Then, new fears about the threat from the Big Lie and how it could affect elections in Arizona, where election deniers are working over time to push lies and conspiracies. Plus, which candidate is raking in the big bucks in the 2024 race for the White House. Carol Leonnig, Mark Mckinnon, Jim Sciutto, Charles Coleman, Nikki Fried, Tyler Pager, Brian Tyler Cohen, and Stephen Richer join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, Donald Trump can't get a bond to secure the over 400 million dollar civil fraud judgment against him.
0:08.0	What happens to his business if he can't post it?
0:11.0	Plus, fallout from the former president's bloodbath
0:14.3	remarks how the Biden campaign is putting them front and center in a new ad. Then
0:19.8	the president's huge fundraising hall last month what the cash advantage over
0:24.3	Trump means for the general election as the 11th hour gets underway on this Monday night. Good evening once again. I'm Stephanie Rule live from Miami. We are now 232 days away from the election and there is big news
0:46.3	today in the world of Donald Trump's court cases and his finances.
0:50.3	Trump's lawyers say that they have been unable to get the gigantic bond in the
0:55.0	464 million dollar judgment for Trump and his co-defendants in the New York
1:00.0	Civil Fraud case.
1:01.0	Trump's team says they have tried 30 different companies to get
1:04.4	the bond with no luck. The bond would stop New York Attorney General Tish
1:08.5	James from collecting that judgment during the appeal process. Now Trump's hoping an appeals court steps in
1:14.4	otherwise Miss James can start seizing his assets one week from today.
1:19.6	Meanwhile, Trump spent the weekend unleashing more dark rhetoric on the campaign trail.
1:25.0	Here's my colleague Garrett Haak with a closer look.
1:28.0	The Trump campaign faces blowback amid Mr Trump's new inflammatory rhetoric against what he calls
1:34.8	criminal migrants. They're not people in my opinion but I'm not allowed to say
1:39.1	that because the radical left says that's a terrible thing to say. These are animals, okay?
1:44.4	Mr. Trump has vowed to bring back his remain in Mexico policy that keeps migrants
1:49.0	waiting outside the US until courts decide their asylum cases. The Biden administration is
1:54.4	releasing 85% of migrants into the US while they wait for asylum decisions.
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