Welcome to the beat, I'm Mari Melber and Donald Trump is running out of cash and running out of time.

He is short on funds personally with this big deadline and politically and I'm going to explain

why all of this is crashing together for him in a way that could actually upend

how this election goes

whether he is on equal footing with the democrats

and a lot of other big stuff

so you may have heard there is a Monday deadline for the half a billion dollar bond that he must pay.

When I say must, let me put it like this.

He lost the fraud judgment, so if he doesn't pay it, they'll start to take his buildings.

He does have the right to appeal if he puts up a bond for the fraud judgment.

You are required under law to do that to appeal a fraud loss.

And he is in New York courts and New York

legal requirements matter and apply to him like any other person.

But no one, no bank, no hedge fund, no institution, has yet stepped up to fund Donald Trump,

to put money down, which he then would use to say, okay, they're holding on to that while he gets to appeal.

And the reason is important. We'll get

into that. Trump is very frustrated. He's now begging for help from people who

have apparently money, unlike him. He is quote hitting up high-dollar donors not just

for campaign cash at this juncture as the general election gets into full steam but

quote also to see whether they might guarantee his bond.

And the details about Trump's fundraising show how all of this is clashing together

because he has an agreement with the RNC

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