Expected, and what donald trump himself did in this case. they had their lawyers come in and talk to the prosecutors to negotiate some terms. this is not a violent crime case. this is a white-collar case. and so it s the type of case where criminal defendants typically would be bonded out, meaning they would have some sort of monetary value to assure that they would come back to court for a trial. but they wouldn t be held in jail for a long time. they, instead, would post those bonds, and then go to the jail to be arrested, to be processed here, and then released as quickly as they could get through the system. we did see some of that beginning to happen today. donald trump has not gone through the full process of this yet. he does have a 200,000 dollar bond set, a little bit different, a little bit more strict than the bond terms he has had in the amara other