Donald Trump just lost a major legal battle, but he’s not done fighting yet. The president is seeking more time before paying out millions in a high-profile civil case.
Donald Trump is asking for time in E. Jean Carroll payout
Donald Trump seeks additional time before paying E. Jean Carroll the nearly $5.8 million owed from a civil jury verdict, according to a CNBC report. Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday night.
She asked Judge Lewis Kaplan to order the immediate release of funds Trump set aside. The president wants to potentially ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its Monday refusal to hear his appeal.
“This is the end of the line,” Roberta Kaplan wrote in the filing. She added that Carroll had previously agreed to each of Trump’s many requests to delay payment. “Given the extraordinary lengths he has taken to avoid such payments and that each of those efforts has been denied in full, that cooperation ends today.”
A spokesman for Trump’s legal team responded by calling the case a “Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes.” The spokesman also stated that “President Trump will keep winning against Liberal Lawfare.”
The jury in May 2023 found Trump had sexually abused Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. It also found he had defamed her by denying her allegations publicly. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Since then, deposited funds have earned nearly $800,000 in interest that Carroll can also claim.
Trump unsuccessfully appealed the verdict to both Judge Kaplan and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take the case, with no noted dissents from any justice. Three of those nine justices were nominated by Trump during his first term.
Shortly after the Supreme Court’s denial, Trump posted on Truth Social and continued attacking Carroll. His lawyers then contacted Carroll’s team to request further delay for a rehearing petition. Roberta Kaplan wrote that such rehearings remain an “extraordinary remedy, granted in only narrow circumstances.”
Originally reported by Vritti Johar on Mandatory.com.
