Donald Trump on Thursday lost a bid to delay paying an $83.3 million civil defamation judgment to writer E. Jean Carroll.
The denial of Trump’s request by Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan means the former president by Monday must either pay that amount to Carroll, or put up a bond or assets to cover the value of the judgment while appealing a jury’s verdict in January that he defamed her after she accused him of rape.
Trump had asked Kaplan to delay the judgment from taking effect until after he rules on post-trial motions in the case. In a court filing Wednesday, Trump attorney Alina Habba had asked the court for a delay “until three business days after the Court rules on his stay motion.”
Kaplan in his order Thursday rejected that request, writing that Trump’s “current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions.”
“He has had since January 26 to organize his finances with the knowledge that he might need to bond this judgment, yet he waited until 25 days after the jury verdict” to ask for a pause in the judgment, Kaplan wrote.
“The expense of ongoing litigation in the absence of a stay does not constitute ‘irreparable injury’ in the relevant sense of that term,” the judge wrote.
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