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A day after the start date for Donald Trump's New York hush money criminal trial was announced, the former president was hit with a gag order by presiding New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan Tuesday.

The order came hours after Trump took to Truth Social to attack both Merchan and his daughter, calling the judge "a true and certified Trump Hater who suffers from a very serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome."

Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News pundit who is also a former judge, raised eyebrows Monday when she made a strange legal comparison between former President Donald Trump and two notorious convicted fraudsters.

Pirro complained that Trump had gotten an unfair deal in his New York City civil fraud trial — in which he was found liable for $464 million, but will be allowed to pay a $175 million bond as he pursues an appeal — in comparison to Bernie Madoff, the perpetrator of the world's largest Ponzi scheme, and Sam Bankman-Fried, a cryptocurrency "wunderkind" who could be sentenced this week to up to 100 years in prison.

A Georgia judge has set a Thursday hearing to consider dismissing a conspiracy case against Donald Trump on First Amendment grounds.

On Monday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered the hearing for March 28. McAfee is expected to consider motions from Donald Trump and other defendants in an election interference case.

After news broke that an appeals court significantly lowered the bond that was leveled against him in his fraud trial, New York Attorney General Letitia James released a statement reminding people that Trump is nevertheless "still facing accountability for his staggering fraud."

"The court has already found that he engaged in years of fraud to falsely inflate his net worth and unjustly enrich himself, his family, and his organization. The $464 million judgment – plus interest – against Donald Trump and the other defendants still stands," James said.

A New York appeals court slashed the amount of the bond Donald Trump must post to cover a $454 million civil fraud judgment Monday.

The ruling reduces the bond to just $175 million to stave off enforcement of the judgment until the appeals process is finalized. The court gave the former president 10 days to post the bond, reported Bloomberg Law.

The $454 million fraud judgment comes due for Donald Trump on Monday, and he started off the day with a fresh complaint about his legal predicament.

The former president has already filed notice that he would appeal the judgment from New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who found him liable for habitually inflating his assets to obtain business loans, but he has been unable to secure a bond worth 110 percent of the penalty to block the attorney general from enforcing the court order during the appeal.

Donald Trump faces twin legal crises on Monday in New York, where he could see the possible seizure of his storied properties over a massive fine as he separately fights to delay a criminal trial even further.

The 77-year-old real estate magnate, who has once again clinched the Republican nomination despite facing a raft of legal charges, has already been hit by heavy fines in two civil cases.

If Eric Trump was looking for some sympathy over his family being unable to find anyone willing to back a half-billion-dollar appeal bond by Monday, he won't find too many shoulders to cry on if he checks out X, formerly known as Twitter.

During a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News with host Maria Bartiromo, Donald Trump's middle son went on an extended rant about the unfairness of the penalty after the Trump Organization was found guilty of committing financial fraud by Judge Arthur Engoron.

Former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform is set for its initial public offering (IPO) as soon as next week after its merger was approved by a special purpose acquisition company. But while Trump himself stands to reap a multibillion-dollar windfall, investors may not be as lucky given Trump's past IPO record.

According to NBC News, Trump's last attempt to go public crashed and burned relatively quickly, with investors getting soaked even as Trump reaped significant benefits. A few months before the 2016 presidential election, the Washington Post reported that when the business mogul took Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts public, it plummeted from a $14 per share IPO to a penny stock in less than a decade.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has made it clear that if the courts don't intervene in her plans to seize former President Donald Trump's assets, she will begin that process as soon as Monday. And it's likely she'll start with his cash.

In a Friday report, Politico's Erica Orden broke down how James would begin with her asset seizure. Assuming Trump's appeal for a last-minute stay is unsuccessful, the New York Attorney General's office would then seek Judge Arthur Engoron's approval to access the former president's bank accounts.