Donald Trump at his civil fraud trial in New York.Reuters/PoolAfter his team cited hardship in securing funding, Trump's civil fraud trial bond was cut to $175 million.ProPublica reported a billionaire businessman offered to post the original $464 million amount due.By failing to report the offer, Trump's legal team may have violated ethics rules, ProPublica found.Donald Trump's recent complaints about being unable to afford his civil fraud trial bond may have been misleading to the court, according to a new report from ProPublica.The outlet reported Friday that, despite Trump's legal team calling the original $464 million an "impossible bond requirement" and claiming he'd been rejected by 30 firms he'd approached to raise the money, the former president had already received an offer from billionaire businessman Don Hankey to post the full amount."I saw that they were rejected by everyone, and I said, 'Gee, that doesn't seem like a difficult bond to post,'" Hankey told ProPublica.