What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Correct - This is a state level charge so he can't "pardon" his way out of it.

Now - If an appeal case was still ongoing were he to win the Election then it would effectively go on hold for the 4 years he's in office but he can't stop it directly.

That's not to say that he couldn't try to use the DOJ to remove or discredit Judges or AG's involved to try and help his appeal but he can't simply expunge the ruling directly.

Fair enough..

The valuations are where the problem lies.

The value he has put on them is nonsense and like you say Commercial property values are tanking all over due to remote work etc.

NY is holding up a bit better than most , but still not great.

Add in the fact that most/all of his properties are already heavily mortgaged and that any large scale sale will absolutely be a fire sale of epic proportions , the chances of him being able to clear $600M+ from that aren't great at all.

And any lender is going to know all of that so they will want EVERYTHING he has to be included in any bond deal to make sure they are covered.

He's f*cked.

His entire sense of self is tied to the idea that he's a "Brilliant Billionaire Businessman".

All you need to do is look at all the efforts he has expended over the years pumping up the valuations of everything to make sure he makes the Forbes Rich list to know how critically important that perception is to him.

This ruling and its outcome, more than anything else, is the one that will hurt him the most.

His lies and braggadocio over the years about his wealth have painted him into a corner. Just last year he claimed to have $400M+ in cash on hand along with his multi-billion dollar property portfolio.

If that was actually true then the bond should be a simple thing to secure.

But it isn't remotely close to true and over the next 30 days in the run up to the appeal/payment deadline, the whole house of cards he has built about how amazing and successful he is is going to come crashing down around him.

Everyone knows he's full of sh!t about his wealth , but we are about to get absolute definitive proof of that and it will be the end of his ego.

Forcing a narcissist to face their actual reality never goes well.

The melt-down he will have will be unrecoverable.

Exactly - It's the oversight and transparency requirements that make it almost impossible for him to get the money.

No legitimate lender will give him the money and any "lender" with ulterior motives that might have been open to "owning" a potential President will not want the focus and attention that getting involved now would bring.

And even if he could get it past Judge Jones , whilst MAGA-world would ignore or explain away him getting cash from some extremely dodgy source , the rest of the electorate will not.

55% of ALL voters have said that a criminal conviction for Trump would mean they definitely would not vote for him. I suspect that similar numbers would hold the same view of Trump getting a half a billion dollars from the Saudis or whoever to pay off his court fines.