Good evening. I'm Laura Coates in Washington, D.C. tonight a moment for the United States.

When you really have to step back and well

think about a New York judge saying the former president Donald Trump will be the

first former president to ever stand for a criminal trial. That's 248 years of the, well, American experiment,

and Donald Trump will forever enter the history

because of the first leader of the free world

to face a jury of his peers.

More than that with the former Trump lawyer in just a moment.

But first, we're going to a little bit of basic math.

$454 million, minus $175 million. That equals, and I cheated here use the calculator

$279 million dollars you can call that well the Trump discount with the clock

running out on Trump a New York appeals court showed Trump the art of a deal.

Now they didn't reduce the actual judgment mind, but they did reduce the amount he has to put

up as a bond to pursue an appeal of that judgment.

That's quite a discount.

Now don't get me wrong, $175 million is not chump change,

as my father would say it's more than the

GDP of some small countries but Trump now gets 10 more days to put that lesser

amount for a bond together and let's just say the former president,

well, he was pleased.

I greatly respect the decision of the appellate division

and I'll post either $175 million in cash or bonds or security or whatever is necessary

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