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Donald J. Trump is contending with civil penalties that are together worth more than half a billion dollars.

After losing two civil trials, the former president must find a bonding company that will vouch for him — or his real estate empire is threatened.

Her lawsuit against Donald Trump was about defamation. It was also about the worth of a woman, long past middle age, who dared to claim she still had value.

The judgment for E. Jean Carroll, and another potentially much larger one on the horizon, could compel the former president to sell some of his assets.

When they faced off at E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial, it was a clash of two New Yorkers, both formidable combatants and talkers, but products of different worlds.

The ex-president was found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, but called her a liar. The award was “a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down,” she said.

The former president’s right to be at his trial “can be forfeited,” the judge warned. E. Jean Carroll is seeking at least $10 million in damages for his denials that he sexually assaulted her.