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New York, March 18 (BBC) - Donald Trump's lawyers have said finding a bond to cover the $464m (£365m) judgement in his New York fraud case is a "practical impossibility".
A judge ordered Mr Trump to pay the penalty in February for falsely inflating the value of his assets.
Mr Trump offered to post a smaller bond of $100m while he appeals, but that request was denied.
In a filing on Monday, his lawyers said they had approached 30 companies to back the bond without success.
"The amount of the judgement, with interest, exceeds $464m, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude," his lawyers wrote in the nearly 5,000-page filing.
They are asking a judge to put the judgement on pause while Mr Trump appeals against the decision.
"The practical impossibility of obtaining a bond interferes with defendants' right to appeal," his lawyers said.
Mr Trump's two eldest sons also must pay millions of dollars in the case.
Along with ordering Mr Trump to pay the penalty, New York Judge Arthur Engoron banned him from running any businesses in the state for three years after he found the former president falsely inflated assets to secure better loan deals.
A judge paused Mr Trump's business ban last month, but denied his bid to provide a smaller bond amount to cover the fine.
In the latest filing, the former president's lawyers included an affidavit from a president of a private insurance firm, who said that "simply put, a bond of this size is rarely, if ever, seen".
"In the unusual circumstance that a bond of this size is issued, it is provided to the largest public companies in the world, not to individuals or privately held businesses," the lawyers also said.
Mr Trump's team added that they had spent "countless hours negotiating with one of the largest insurance companies in the world" with no success.
They also said bond companies would not accept "hard assets such as real estate as collateral" for the bond, but only cash or "cash equivalents", such as investments that can be quickly liquidated.
According to a Forbes estimate, Mr Trump is worth about $2.6bn. He also testified last year that he had $400m in liquid assets.
But the $464m judgement is not his only expense. He was ordered to pay $83m in January after losing a defamation case to E Jean Carroll, a woman he was found to have sexually abused. He has already posted a bond in that case.
New York's attorney general has vowed to seize his assets if he does not pay the fraud penalty.
The penalty will keep accruing interest by at least $112,000 per day until he pays.
Uncle Paradise Tuesday, 19 March 2024 12:39 AM
We have some bond experts in Sri Lanka. Mr. Trump ought to talk to some of them.
ravin Tuesday, 19 March 2024 06:49 AM
Very simple solution. Sell all the over-valued assts to recover as much as possible of the paneity. He tried to cheat others by over valuing which may amount to fraud . Then change the judgement with proper legal procedure.
American kaputas Tuesday, 19 March 2024 08:55 AM
Mr. Trump, the Rajapakses of bankrupt Sri Lanka will be able to help you.
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