Trump says he would testify in hush money trial; court lowers bond in fraud case to $175m for now – as it happened

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• Trump told to pay $175m bond in 10 days in civil fraud case
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A key plank of Donald Trump's pitch to presidential election voters has been a return to what he characterizes as the good old days of his first term in the White House. The Guardian's David Smith reports that the former president appears to mean what he says, as he gets together his old team of problematic campaign advisors:

Donald Trump's getting the band back together. But this time they come with political baggage, conspiracy theories and, in some instances, criminal convictions.