'Clean' property, private lenders could be Trump's best option to get $540 million for legal judgments
Donald Trump is racing to stave off a pair of civil penalties totaling nearly $540 million — without having to first put up the full amounts in cash or bonds. The former president's lawyers claim that he would face "irreparable" harm if required to fully secure his judgments in order to keep them from coming due, and might even have to quickly sell off properties that can't be re-bought. They also say Trump can't simply post a cash deposit — at least not in his New York civil business fraud case, where he is facing $454 million in fines and interest alone. "No one, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, has five hundred million laying around," Trump's attorney Chris Kise told an appeals court
