Former President Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond Monday night. Separately, a gag order against him was expanded in his hush-money trial.A court filing said the bond was provided by Knight Insurance, a California-based company. The move ensures that New York Attorney General Letitia James doesn't seize Trump's assets related to the case.
News of the bond comes a week after a New York appeals court reduced the amount Trump had to post as bond from nearly half a billion to $175 million – and gave him 10 days to post it. Trump made that payment well within that window. Trump had argued that a bond to cover the $454 million civil fraud judgement was"a practically impossibility," because he doesn't have the cash to guarantee it right no