When it comes to Donald Trump’s many legal difficulties, yesterday was an unusually busy day. A New York state appeals court, for example, gave the former president 10 days to pay a $175 million bond in the Republican’s civil fraud case while he appeals the ruling. Around the same time, the presumptive GOP nominee also learned that his first criminal trial — stemming from the hush-money-to-a-porn-star scandal — is now set to begin on April 15, at which point jury selection will get underway.
Asked whether he’d accept a financial bailout from a foreign government to address his legal debts, the former president initially said he wouldn’t, though he quickly added, “I think you’d be allowed to, possibly. I don’t know. I mean, if you go borrow from a big bank many of the banks are outside of this, as you know, the biggest banks frankly are outside of our country.” But just as notable as what the criminal defendant told reporters was the response from Biden’s re-election campaign.