Trump cannot delay enforcement of $83.3 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case
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Source: Reuters
March 7, 2024 5:29 PM EST Updated an hour ago
NEW YORK, March 7 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump's request to delay enforcement of the writer E. Jean Carroll's $83.3 million verdict in her recent defamation case. The decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan adds to pressure on the former U.S. president to line up an acceptable bond during his expected appeal.
In the Jan. 26 verdict, jurors agreed with Carroll, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, that Trump had defamed her in June 2019 by denying he had raped her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
Kaplan made the verdict official on Feb. 8, and gave Trump 30 days to post a bond or come up with cash during his appeal, which is expected to challenge the jury's finding of liability and the amount of damages.
Trump had sought to delay enforcement of the verdict until the judge ruled on his motions to throw it out, which he filed on Tuesday. But the judge said Trump should not have waited 25 days after the verdict before seeking a delay. He also said Trump failed to show how he might suffer "irreparable injury" if required to post a bond. "Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions," the judge wrote.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-cannot-delay-enforcing-833-mln-verdict-e-jean-carroll-case-2024-03-07/
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March 7, 2024 5:06 PM EST Updated 10 min ago
March 7 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump's request to delay enforcement of the writer E. Jean Carroll's $83.3 million verdict in her recent defamation case.
The order was issued by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan. In the Jan. 26 verdict, jurors agreed with Carroll, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, that Trump had defamed her in June 2019 by denying he had raped her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
Kaplan made the verdict official on Feb. 8 and gave the former U.S. president 30 days to post a bond or come up with cash during his appeal, which is expected to challenge the jury's finding of liability and the amount of damages.
Trump had sought to delay enforcement of the verdict until the judge ruled on his motions to throw it out. In seeking to avoid posting a big bond, or any bond at all, lawyers for Trump rejected Carroll's claim that his finances were strained.
Marthe48
(16,963 posts)nt/
Freethinker65
(10,022 posts)No big deal.
getagrip_already
(14,752 posts)He can't be bothered. He is too busy to count it out.
Just trust him. He is good for it. Trust him.
underpants
(182,818 posts)This increases have had to hurt him bigly.
charliea
(260 posts)But according to recent reports the RNC checkbook doesn't have enough to cover even E. Jean Carroll's judgement, let alone the state of New York's whopping judgement increasing at over 100K per day.
I also just saw that he has to pay Christoper Steele's company around 400K for their lawyer's fees.
Let's just admit that Trump is a LOSER!
The Roux Comes First
(1,299 posts)Uh, HUD?
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)They're having significant financial issues of their own.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)Or, perhaps the Saudis will launder some money through one of Trump's kids or in-laws.
Lonestarblue
(9,996 posts)NonPC
(305 posts)They are done with Trump. As his chances of re-election diminish, so will their will to fund him.
riversedge
(70,238 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)QED
(2,747 posts)likely dies of natural causes.
HighFired49
(350 posts)The courts can order that his properties be sold to pay his court ordered debts. Unfortunately, they are all probably mortgaged to the hilt.
Mr.Bill
(24,294 posts)Trump and his crew are pretty good at milking a year's delay out of it. I don't know exactly how these things work, but anything involved with Trump in a court never happens on time. If he gets elected again, most likely it won't happen at all. If he doesn't get elected, then it won't matter because he's got shit flying at him from many directions. It's all about the election.
He's a cornered animal with eveything to lose and at the same time, nothing to lose.
prodigitalson
(2,422 posts)anyone but the most deranged psychopath by now
Mr.Bill
(24,294 posts)Trump is thriving on it.
prodigitalson
(2,422 posts)for sure
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)He's taking uppers in some form, whether it's Adderall, meth, or another drug from the pharmaceutical companies grab-bag of uppers.
There's absolutely zero chance a man of his age, physical fatness, poor diet etc. sits up in the early morning hours rage tweeting, day after day after day, without some sort of pharmaceutical help. ZERO CHANCE!
Biden would pardon him if he was really going to be behind bars. His sentence will more likely be home detainment at Mar a logo!
Presidential pardons don't cover state sentences!
IbogaProject
(2,816 posts)Pardon requires that the subject acknowledged their misconduct. I could be commuted down to house arrest and parole. That would almost be worse as he'd have to be under a parole officer.
niyad
(113,316 posts)by the way.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,191 posts)BUT, the court can still put liens on as many properties that see fit. That will keep him from selling the properties or using those properties as collateral for more loans. They have him by his tiny balls.
Ocelot II
(115,706 posts)It might take a while but he'll come up with it. I suppose he could file personal bankruptcy but that wouldn't necessarily stop the collection (though it would slow it down), since intentional tort judgments are usually not dischargeable in bankruptcy. And if he declared bankruptcy, all of his personal finances would be gone over very carefully - which he would not like or want, at all.
Chainfire
(17,542 posts)and then take you to court to squeeze the last dime from you. I would suggest something similar. Oh, but wait, there are different rules for different folks...
Ocelot II
(115,706 posts)but cars depreciate and real estate doesn't. You want the valuable assets, not cars, unless that's all he has.
NanaCat
(1,135 posts)May not be as steep a drop as with cars, but it can lose value.
Ask Detroit about that one.
Ocelot II
(115,706 posts)like he did his NYC apartment - Versailles as redecorated by Saddam Hussein's pimp. Anybody who wanted to live there ;like a normal person would have to strip it down to the studs and start over.
Delmette2.0
(4,165 posts)had health violations.
My guess is that he does not care for or properly repair any of his properties. That kind of neglect brings down the value.
swag
(26,487 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)What a dumbass.
pfitz59
(10,381 posts)too late to sell. time to seize. let's start with Mar A Lego.
Novara
(5,842 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)Buttercup. Its time to seize assets if he drags his heels.
kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)And I hope President Biden brings up Orbans visit to mar a lago tomorrow The guy who destroyed Democracy in Hungary.
SKKY
(11,810 posts)I mean, I have always said schadenfreude is never a good look. But this jack-ass just brings out the worst in me. "Let them fly coach!"
BlueKota
(1,734 posts)They aren't giving him an inch. Too bad the same can't be said of all the judges handling his multiple cases.
iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)niyad
(113,316 posts)Hotler
(11,424 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,996 posts)Botany
(70,508 posts)Wasn't he already found guilty in his 1st trial
and then despite the judge's admonition Trump kept talking and thus he got trial # 2
And he can't sue himself for hiring bad lawyers. E. Jean Carroll and her lawyers were
light years ahead of Trump and his crew as far
as being smart, knowing the legal system, and
how to conduct themselves in Court.
BTW Trump does not have the money. His whole life is just a shame
limbicnuminousity
(1,402 posts)He scribbled that in crayon on the copy of the Constitution sitting atop a pile of classified documents in his bathroom.
Botany
(70,508 posts)
. E. Jean was trying to beg The Donald to say some more crap so they could sue him again.
They were giving him shit to his face and saying he is a nothing and that made me feel much better.