Donald Trump’s request to delay enforcement of E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million verdict in her recent defamation case has been denied.
In the ruling Thursday, Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan said 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 file his prior motion for an unsecured or partially secured stay pending resolution of post-trial motions,” Kaplan wrote.
Trump had asked Kaplan to delay the judgment from taking effect until after he rules on post-trial motions in the case.
In January, a jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages after determining that Trump defamed her while denying her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.
Kaplan’s ruling on Thursday means Trump has until Monday to either pay Carroll $83.3 million or put up a bond or assets to cover the value of the judgment while he appeals the verdict.
