Good estimation of his finances here.
Does Donald Trump have the money to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83 million? David Cay Johston on a Trump secet about to be revealed.
www.dcreport.org
It's hard to argue with this statement from the article:
>>>Knowing Trump, I doubt he will stop attacking Carroll. His emotional state and views about women, frozen in puberty, and his declining mental health and cognitive capacity will not facilitate a proper change in conduct.<<<
This might be overstating it, however:
>>>Only a foolhardy or corrupt banker would issue Trump a bond enabling his appeal of the $83.3 million award to E. Jean Carroll.<<<
Deutsche Bank already demonstrated how to collect from Trump. Require him to personally guarantee the full amount:
>>>But after shopping the loan around to other banks, Vrablic offered the best loan: her division’s deal came with a 2% interest rate vs. the commercial real estate division’s offer of 8%. “It doesn’t get better than this,” Ivanka Trump said. The tradeoff was that
Trump would personally have to guarantee the full amount of the loan—$125 million—and maintain a net worth of $2.5 billion and $50 million in unencumbered liquidity.<<<
The New York attorney general is suing Donald Trump for defrauding banks
qz.com
The personal guarantee was apparently the key to the deal:
>>>A lawyer for the attorney general’s office, Kevin Wallace, sought to clarify that despite the bank’s rosy assessment,
Deutsche Bank had issued the loans only because the former president had personally guaranteed them. Ms. Vrablic agreed that was the case.<<<
The testimony of witnesses from Deutsche Bank lent support to a central plank of former President Donald Trump’s defense in the civil fraud case against him.
www.nytimes.com
Of course, Deutsche Bank did dump Trump, so there is that. There's no doubt that the bank is not anxious to go on record trashing a former client (to avoid scaring off the next big fish, and making themselves look foolish). It would be interesting to know what the bankers actually thought about it.