The source is here hasn't paid yet. Normally i would dismiss that as a piss poor argument but until i see a headline saying he paid anything, I'm sticking to that. His legacy is literally not paying. Bills, consequences, fines ,Congressionally approved funds... you name it.
The NYPD is awful, New York spent millions of dollars funding police to stop turn stile jumpers on the NYC metro…which was costing the metro a mere fraction of what the NYPD spent to try to stop it.
This is what success looks like in a neoliberal hellscape where people pretend to be progressive while letting conservatives move the goalposts wherever the hell they want.
Or it makes it so someone doesn't have to pay a full penalty before due process for something that is basically guaranteed to loose on appeal in the long run. Apparently civil rights matter until it's one of your enemies.
He'll get that money back if he wins his appeal, which it's extremely unlikely that he will, but in the meantime the courts must begin collecting it so that the people of New York can be reimbursed for Trumps decades of fraud as soon as the case is closed.