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A tabloid publisher’s testimony dominated a week that began with opening statements setting the stage for the first prosecution of a president.

The former president, who is appealing the penalty in his civil fraud case, offered a bond of only $100 million to pause the judgment.

The ruling in Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud case could cost him all his available cash. The judge said that the former president’s “complete lack of contrition” bordered on pathological.

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.