New trick for our broken legal system:
We'll just make the cost so great that you CAN'T challenge our miscarriage of "justice".
In this instance, precious metals are infinitely cheaper.
So there’s a nuance here that’s not being properly elucidated by anyone. Trump doesn’t have to post anything to appeal, in theory. He needs to post the money or the bond to stop the judgment from being executed against him pending the determination of his appeal. See CPLR 5519(a)(2).
So for everyone saying there’s no way the average person would be able to appeal a judgment of $400 Million so they’d never be able to appeal...the average person wouldn’t be able to have $400 million collected from him so there wouldn’t be a need to post a $400 million bond to stay enforcement of the judgment pending appeal. But in this unusual set of circumstances, the state actually could force that money from Trump, so he has to do it, or the state can take his money before the appeal is decided.