Courts cut Trump's bond to $175 million, but set April trial date

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "Trump is a real estate magnate, and that is a thing that makes him particularly easy to hold accountable," says Will Thomas, assistant professor of business law at the University of Michigan.
55% : "Trump is a real estate magnate, and that is a thing that makes him particularly easy to hold accountable," says Will Thomas, assistant professor of business law at the University of Michigan.
40% : But experts noted that they may simply have decided to split the $350 million difference between Judge Engoron's full judgment and the $100 million bond that Trump lawyers last week said was all the former president could afford.
38% : "So the [$175 million] amount probably doesn't tell us what Trump should have to pay," he says.
31% : "Rather, it was an arbitrary figure set in an amount that Trump could likely afford, but more than Trump asked for, to make sure that he is afforded a fair opportunity to make his case on appeal."

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