Trump’s legal woes have now set him back by more than $500m – how will he pay?

His primary opponent suggested the ex-president will raid Republican National Committee coffers to pay his legal fees

Donald Trump awoke on Saturday facing a stark new reality of legal obligations in excess of half a billion dollars after his stunning civil fraud trial defeat a day earlier, and questions swirling over his ability, or intention, to pay.

Yet the former president remained defiant late on Friday, insisting in a vitriolic rant from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida that he would win an appeal against a New York judge's ruling that he must pay more than $350m for intentional financial fraud stretching more than a decade.