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with $464M fraud bond: ‘Keep your

filthy hands off Trump Tower!’
By Isabel Keane and Diana Glebova
Published March 21, 2024 Updated March 21, 2024, 8:49 a.m. ET

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“KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF OF TRUMP TOWER!,” reads a message to Trump’s supporters from
104,076
a joint fundraising committee that allocates the money to his campaign and a separate political committee
that has been paying his legal bills.

The civil fraud case brought by New York state Attorney General Letitia James in 2022 is one of several
legal battles Trump faces ahead of the upcoming presidential election.

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Donald Trump is asking his supporters to help him pay his fraud bond.
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The message urged supporters to donate in amounts ranging from $20.24 to $3,300 or more.

Trump, 77, has also increasingly become more certain in his public statements that the $454M bond
amount will be “not possible” to secure before Monday’s deadline when James can start seizing his
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$355,000,000, plus interest (reminiscent of John Lovitz, “The Liar,” on SNL when it was good), & wants
me to bond it, which is not possible for bonding companies to do in such a high amount, before I can even
Appeal,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Thursday morning.
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In the message to supporters, Trump also accused James of wanting to seize his properties as part of a
“witch hunt” led by President Biden and the Democrats to ruin his re-election campaign.

“So before the day is over, I’m calling on ONE MILLION Pro-Trump patriots to chip in and say: STOP THE
WITCH HUNT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP!” the message said.

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The civil fraud case brought by New York state Attorney General Letitia James in 2022 is one of several legal battles
Trump faces ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
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Biden has previously said he is not involved in any of the cases against his predecessor.

While Trump’s fundraising page alludes to James’ case, it does not say the funds would be used to cover
it.

It’s unclear if, under federal law, Trump could use the funds to pay for the judgment.

Federal law prohibits using campaign money for personal expenses. Still, Trump has been able to use
donor money to pay for some of his lawyers’ fees after claiming his legal defense is campaign-related.

Follow along with The Post's coverage of former President Donald Trump's
search to find a loan for his $454 million bond payment
What will happen if Trump can’t post $454M bond in his civil fraud case by Monday’s deadline?
Trump begs MAGA supporters for help as $454M fraud bond deadline approaches: ‘Keep your
filthy hands off Trump Tower!’
Letitia James doubts Trump is ‘truly unable’ to come up with $454M bond as deadline to pay up
inches closer

Donald Trump may not pay bond — and instead let Letitia James seize Trump Tower: insiders
Trump rages at ‘corrupt puppet’ judge ordering him to pay ‘practically impossible’ $454M bond
by Monday

Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court Monday that 30 surety companies had rejected him for a
bond that would cover the massive civil fraud judgment, bringing him closer to having his properties
seized.

Trump must pay or post a bond to prevent the state from taking his property while he works to appeal the
judgment against him for misstating property values to dupe lenders and insurers.

Earlier this month, Trump posted a $91.6 million bond to cover an $83.3 million defamation verdict in the
case involving writer E. Jean Carroll, which he has appealed.

But the massive bond in the civil fraud case has left Trump scrambling to find the money.

His legal team sent a letter to the Supreme Court of New York on Thursday reiterating the former
president should not have to sell off his properties in a “fire sale” to get enough funds to cover the bond.

“Itwould be completely illogical—and the definition of an unconstitutional Excessive Fine and a Taking—to
require Defendants to sell properties at all, and especially in a ‘fire sale,’ in order to be able to appeal the
lawless Supreme Court judgment, as that would cause harm that cannot be repaired once the Defendants
do win, as is overwhelmingly likely, on appeal,” the letter read.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing in all of the civil and criminal cases against him.

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Gus Vergara
4 hours ago
How did this judge come up with this outrageous penalty amount? There was no crime since all
anks have the right to obtain their own appraisal if they don’t agree with a specific appraisal
a client submits a loan application. Besides the banks never filed a claim against the
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Me Camp
3 hours ago
You are correct. I have purchased and sold several homes. I could value my home at
hatever price I thought it was worth. The bank will do an appraisal for the loan and
its value or not.
Since the bank accepted its value, then there was no crime committed here, Other than
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Ht
4 hours ago
The loans he borrowed as a discounted interest rates,.. and the what he should have paid
interests. The difference of that came about 450 million.

Trump said under oath that’s what he had in liquids and not long ago his lawyers bragged
had NO trouble coming up with this.. don’t you ever get ti...
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Jail Joe
5 hours ago
If the city liquidates Trump holdings in NYC, property values will crash and investment will

This should be fun.

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Actual Conservative Patriot

5 hours ago
"property values will crash and investment will stop" Good, when people can afford their
many other problems will be greatly reduced.
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Roy West
5 hours ago
Poor MAGAs all you have left is wishing and hoping for misinformation of others.
is going to crash; most NYers want Trump out of the city.

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MV
5 hours ago
Theres no where in that article that says he’s begging for money. If there was a link, i’d send
Thank u to president trump for fighting for us
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JJ Leday
4 hours ago
Why haven't you sold your house, yet. If you told DT that you'd sell your house and be
omeless for him, do you think he'd say, don't do that, or you do you think he'd say, thank
very much, and walk away. Now, think of what kind of guy would do that to you. A
no less...
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Gronkk68
5 hours ago
He (Trump) has no idea who you, or any of us are. Politics aside, I'm not paying for this
incompetent hack lawyers or his private jet.
Worry about your own life. None of this affects you directly.
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