Republican presidential candidate and venerable U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at some point soon of a campaign tournament at Greensboro Coliseum on March 2, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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A Contemporary York identify on Thursday rejected a show by Donald Trump to extend a $83.3 million civil defamation judgment in favor of author E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling manner that Trump by Monday must pay Carroll, or post a bond or assets as collateral against the judgment while entertaining a jury’s verdict in January that as president he defamed her after she accused him in 2019 of rape.
The judgment is appropriate one in every of three civil damages awards against Trump, who owes a total of $540 million to the Contemporary York affirm lawyer long-established and Carroll, while heading within the appropriate route to turn into the Republican presidential nominee.
Trump had requested Contemporary york federal court Make a choice Lewis Kaplan to terminate the most up-to-date Carroll case judgment till after he guidelines on post-trial motions.
His lawyer Alina Habba in a submitting Wednesday requested a extend “till three replace days after the Court guidelines on his protect motion.”
However Kaplan, in his denial expose Thursday, wrote that Trump’s “most up-to-date distress is a results of his beget dilatory actions.”
“He has had since January 26 to arrange his funds with the recordsdata that he would possibly well per chance must bond this judgment, yet he waited till 25 days after the jury verdict” to impeach for a terminate within the judgment, Kaplan wrote.
The identify additionally rejected an argument from Trump’s lawyers that he would undergo “irreparable ruin” if he changed into compelled to post a bond for the plump judgment because he would settle on to pay non-recoverable fees.
“The expense of ongoing litigation within the absence of a protect would now not constitute ‘irreparable ruin’ within the relevant sense of that term,” the identify wrote.
In a assertion blasting Kaplan’s expose, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung talked about, “Right here’s a continuation of a fully lawless witch hunt.”
“President Trump filed a timely motion to protect the ridiculous judgment, and heaps courts, at the side of the 2nd Circuit [federal appeals court], acknowledge the importance of short-term administrative stays while such motions are idea of,” Cheung talked about.
“We watch for persevering with to litigate the case and to total vindication of the truth.”
Zak Sawyer, a spokesman for Carroll’s lawyers, declined to comment.
Trump in a single other Contemporary york federal civil trial remaining yr changed into discovered to get sexually abused Carroll in an assault within the mid-1990s, and defamed her in comments he made in 2022, nearly two years after leaving the White Home.
He later posted $5.6 million in money as collateral while he appealed the jury verdict ordering him to pay her $5 million if that is so.
Both remaining yr’s trial and the most most up-to-date trial connected to Carroll’s direct that Trump raped her in a dressing room on the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Contemporary york after a possibility meeting there within the 1990s.
Trump denied raping the author, and claimed she had made up her allegation to promote gross sales of a e book she changed into writing, and to ruin him politically.
Trump remaining month changed into ordered by a affirm court identify to pay a $454 million judgment in a civil replace fraud lawsuit filed by Contemporary York Prison genuine Usual Letitia James.
He has now not yet been compelled to pay that quantity or set up collateral to receive the judgment within the fraud case. However that soon can even replace if an appeals court declines to protect the judgment.
