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How much does Trump owe so far in each of his court cases?

Donald Trump is facing a potential cash crunch after being ordered to pay out more than $500m by two separate New York judges in two unrelated court cases just weeks apart.

Mr Trump’s disastrous start to 2024 in the courtroom stands in marked contrast to his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, which has been remarkably smooth and has seen him sail to victory in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina as all but one of his challengers fell away, leaving him almost certain to square off against Joe Biden again in November.

But with four criminal indictments and 91 felony charges hanging over him, Mr Trump’s increasingly costly and myriad legal entanglements could yet get the better of him.

Voters have repeatedly indicated in polling that they could not support the Republican if he were to be convicted of a crime before Election Day (he has already been found liable for sexual assault in a civil case) and some of the cases against him cut to the core of his appeal as a public figure.

Chief among them stands the New York fraud case in which he and several Trump Organization associates were found guilty of knowingly inflating the value of company assets in order to obtain favourable loans from banks and insurance brokers, a ruling that, in addition to being mightily expensive, contradicts his presentation of himself as a successful businessman, the basis of his persona on the NBC reality show The Apprentice between 2004 to 2015, which in turn provided the platform for his political popularity.

Mr Trump’s next major court date is Monday 25 March, when Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s “hush money” trial commences, in which the candidate stands accused of falsifying his business records to conceal

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