Former US president Donald Trump has made a $269 million bond payment, avoiding several of his real estate assets being seized by the state of New York. Trump, 2 of his sons and several Trump Organisation executives were found guilty of fraud by misrepresenting the value of the company’s property portfolio over the decade before his first presidential run. They were originally told to pay $700 million, and like the time in the ‘90s when we ran up a phone bill by making long-distance phone calls to friends during the school holidays with no way to pay our parents back, Team Trump was fretting about what would happen next… The court ended up rubber-stamping a reduced amount, and that payment has now been made. If only Trump’s Truth Social media platform was impressing the markets…