“If I understood Eric Trump correctly, he had pointed out on FN that Trump’s original 8th Amendment violating (imo) bond was a record-breaking high amount. Is that still the case with reduced amount?”
He would still have that argument for the judgment, since that’s still $350-odd million plus interest, but I don’t know that he needs to appeal the bond requirement now to the Court of Appeals. He can write a check and still try, but the NY COA takes even fewer cases than the SCOTUS.
If the NY COA denies taking the case then Trump could go to SCOTUS. We've covered this before.