Trump lawyers say $454 million bond a 'practical impossibility' as deadline nears

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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say the $454 million bond is a 'practical impossibility.' USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Aysha Bagchi reports.

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0:08.0	Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday March 19th, 2024. This is the
0:18.9	excerpt. Today a look at Trump's financial hurdles from a civil fraud case judgment and more.
0:28.0	Plus famine is imminent in parts of Gaza and conspiracy theories are putting a bipartisan voter integrity system in peril.
0:37.4	Former President Donald Trump has not been able to get a bond in his civil fraud case to protect
0:42.2	his assets while he appeals a
0:44.2	four hundred fifty four million dollar judgment that's according to his lawyers in a
0:48.7	New York appeals court yesterday I caught up with USA Today Justice
0:52.4	Department correspondent Asia Bogchi for the latest.
0:56.0	Aisha, thanks for hopping on today. Hi Taylor, good to see you. So Aisha, what's the latest surrounding
1:01.4	bond in Trump civil fraud case here?
1:04.0	And what did we learn exactly from his lawyers in this court filing yesterday?
1:08.0	Trump's lawyers told us that he's having a lot of trouble coming up with a bond in this case and he needs to post a bond by the end of this week or early next week
1:18.5	basically to stop the New York Attorney General Letitia James from starting to go after his assets.
1:24.1	That's the deadline for him to post the equivalent of what he owes in this case, which is
1:29.6	$454 million plus interest in order to stop her from trying to get a court to help
1:36.6	her go after his assets.
1:38.0	She has already said that she is ready to go after his properties.
1:41.4	What are we talking about specifically here, Asia?
1:43.7	Is this real estate or which assets are they?
1:46.2	Well, Letitia James has talked about how she sees the Trump building
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