Another way to read Trump’s failure to secure a bond on the fraud case appeal is that none of the people/companies he’s approached have any confidence whatsoever that he will win that appeal. After all, if they had any confidence that he could get the judgment overturned or at least drastically reduced, then odds are they’d have no issue with fronting the money on the confidence that they’d get most or all of it back in the end. But given the shitshow that we saw at trial, all of them realize that they’re basically just giving Trump the money he needs to delay the inevitable and aren’t willing to make that deal.