Noting that Trump has been unable to get a bond for the $454 million plus he owes after being found guilty of fraud, Heather Cox Richardson says,
"Last year, Trump said under oath that he had 'substantially in excess of 400 million in cash,' and that amount was 'going up very substantially every month.'”
"Apparently, that statement was a lie, or the money has evaporated, or Trump doesn’t want to use it to pay this court-ordered judgment on top of the $91.6 million bond he posted earlier this month in the second E. Jean Carroll case.
Timothy O’Brien of Bloomberg notes that Trump’s desperate need for cash makes him even more of a national security threat than his retention of classified documents made it clear he already was."
Brian Beutler says that Trump's desperation for money "alone is enough to conflict Trump out of receiving the classified intelligence briefings the government typically provides to presidential nominees as a courtesy. It’s one of many conflicts, in fact. But then Trump decided to drive the point home even further.
On Monday, we learned Trump wants to bring Paul Manafort back into his campaign."
"With Trump under financial pressure and angling to avoid jail, the possible reemergence of Russia-oligarch-whisperer Paul Manafort – himself convicted in the Mueller probe and later pardoned by Trump – as an adviser to the Trump campaign is a development that I would find implausible in a fictional political thriller, but here we are."