The clock has officially started.

Today the judge overseeing Donald Trump's civil fraud case

officially entered into the record an order that forces Trump to pay the

454 million, including interest, he owes the state of New York

within the next 30 days. Mr. Trump will also have to make a daily interest payment of $111,000 for each day he does not fork up the cash.

If you're doing the math at home here, that is another million dollars roughly every nine days. Not long

after that order came down today, Trump's attorneys in the E. Jean Carroll

lawsuit filed a motion to request extra time to pay the $83 million he owes in that case.

Between these two lawsuits Donald Trump is on the hook for more than half a billion

dollars and it is totally unclear if Donald Trump actually has

that much money at his disposal. Trump claimed in a deposition last April

that his business had 400 million dollars of cash on hand, which is a lot of money.

But it is considerably less than what he owes right now.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has already said she will start seizing Trump's assets if he does not pay.

So Donald Trump is in a bind.

He could try to borrow the $454 million.

He owes New York State.

But that would require someone to actually lend Trump that much money.

And Donald Trump already owes a lot of money

to a lot of people.

We don't have a completely current snapshot of Trump's finances, but according to the financial

disclosure forms he filed to run for president in 2024, as of a year ago,

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