'Bond remains elusive': Trump's latest rant seen as sign he can't pay massive legal bill

Former president Donald Trump late Friday night railed against the civil fraud case in which he was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars. Some saw it as a sign that he can't even afford the bond needed to appeal it.

Trump has promised to challenge the massive judgment, but legal experts suggest it will be unsuccessful, except for maybe shaving some money off the total fine.

Still, none of that has stopped Trump from lashing out at the judge and prosecutor in that case.

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"Crooked New York State Judge Arthur Engoron, at the demand of an even more Crooked Attorney General, Letitia James, despite GREAT AND VERY CONSERVATIVE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (WITH A FULL DISCLAIMER CLAUSE THAT ENGORON REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE!), RULED THAT I SHOULD PAY AN EXORBITANT FINE DESPITE DOING NOTHING WRONG," Trump wrote Friday. "THE ONLY FRAUD WAS ENGORON’S VALUATION OF MAR-A-LAGO FOR A TINY FRACTION OF WHAT IT REALLY WORTH."

He then added, "NO CRIME, NO VICTIM, ONLY PROFITS AND SUCCESS. A TOTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE, COMPANIES FLEEING NEW YORK!"

Numerous political onlookers saw Trump's post-judgment whining as a sign of something even larger.

Trump biographer Tim O'Brien chimed in:

"Translation: 'I still can’t dig up hundreds of millions of dollars to cover my fraud judgement even though I’ve spent decades saying I’m worth thousands of millions.'"

A parody account for Special Counsel Jack Smith wrote, "Update: Bond remains illusive" in sharing Trump's post.

Conservative George Conway, a frequent critic of Trump who recently explained how the Supreme Court's decision to hear the former president's immunity argument was actually a bad thing for his 2024 election chances, also had a Bond-based take:

"My name is Bond, Supersedeas Bond," Conway wrote on Saturday, referring to the term for a defendant's bond for appealing. "I'll have my orange martini shaken, not stirred."