Had my first child recently and she's awesome. I can't help but smile everytime I look at her.

Once you hold em you can never imagine having them taken from the world.

Turns out Trump is still struggling to pay the (heavily reduced) $175 million bond, even after he posted the bond on Monday.

The company that underwrote the bond has so far failed to demonstrate that it is capable of paying the bond or that it is financially sound. If they can't,Trump might have to start shopping for a new moneylender or risk losing his properties.

It's fun how a former president can't find a single legitimate company in the entire country to support him financially, but I guess if you spend your life ripping people off, it eventually comes back to bite you.

@comp_atkins: Huh, so it's a play on the Oscars name. Never made that connection after all these years.

The same law was used. It doesn't matter what court it was in except in Trump's case he should have been tried in criminal court. The problem was there was no victim so no crime. It was a political case or should I say election interference.

Bernie Madoff bilked millions of people out of several billion dollars and his bond was ten million dollars. Trump cheated no one, no one lost money and his bond was four hunderd and seventy-five million. There is only one explaination it was political. Also the bond amount violates the eight ammendment of the constitution, of course whe do the Democrats ever abide by the constitution.

@comp_atkins: For what it's worth, there are a few big practical differences between securing $50K for a bond and securing $450 million for a bond. The latter might actually be impossible for Trunp to do - especially when he has been found guilty of fraud, he probably doesn't own much property, he is infamous for never paying his bills, and his prospects of a successful appeal are extremely low.

You have to give him a realistic chance to appeal it, and it's bad form to say "your crimes are too big so you can't afford to appeal" - that just gives Trump more ammunition to pretend the courts are corrupt.

So hey, *maybe* that's the reason the courts modified the standard civil procedure rules this time. I can't see any actual reasons posted, so it's basically either an access to justice argument, or it's simple favouritism by the courts.

I still think it's the wrong decision. Trump was begging for mercy on paper, but he was mocking the courts online, and I think that should have tanked any chance of a good outcome for him.

On the bright side, his track record suggests he'll lose the appeal, and the judgement still stands at $450+ million, so these delays could simply mean that he can lose the next election and then have all of his properties sold off at roughly the same time.