'Judge' Jeanine Pirro Confuses Bonds With Penalties In Civil Case

This is Fox's sorry excuse for a "legal analyst." Here's "judge" Jeanine Pirro conflating the civil penalties needed to post bond for an appeal in Trump's civil fraud case with bond being posted in criminal cases. Pirro also lied that Judge Engoron just pulled a number "out of the sky" to hit Trump with for his civil fraud case in New York, disregarding any reporting about the specifics of how the judge arrived at that number.

Here's how Pirro opened things up on this Monday's The Five while discussing the bond being lowered for Trump in New York:

PIRRO: The $175 million bond uh... which certainly is appropriate, because there was absolutely no connection between the $475 million and I think it's a half a billion at this point with the interest, that Engoron just pulled out of the sky and said I'm going to hit Donald Trump for that.

And, you know, they're just disappointed because they wanted to call him broke Don and he's not broke Don anymore. He's going make that $175 million bond.

Now, it is conditioned, of course, upon his perfecting his appeal by September.

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