Judge Rejects Trump Bid to Delay $5.8M Payment to E. Jean Carroll
The judge said Trump must respond by July 7 as Carroll seeks to collect nearly $5.8 million, including interest, from the 2023 verdict.
- On Saturday, July 4, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied President Donald Trump's request to delay a $5.8 million payout to E. Jean Carroll following her civil defamation case victory.
- Trump's legal team requested the delay to allow new lead counsel Josh Halpern time to learn the case after former attorney Justin Smith departed last month for a federal judgeship.
- Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, filed a swift rebuttal accusing Trump of seeking "to buy time so he can try to concoct some new basis to put off paying Plaintiff."
- Trump must now reply by Tuesday, July 7, after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal on June 29, leaving him with no further legal avenues to contest the verdict.
- The payout stems from a 2023 jury verdict finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, claims he continues to dispute as a "hoax" and "con job.
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The compensation amount has already been deposited into a special escrow account, but Trump is attempting to delay its disbursement.
Judge: Trump Can’t Delay Payment To E. Jean Carroll
USA Today reports: A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump’s request for more time to respond to New York writer E. Jean Carroll’s demand for $5.8 million she won in a civil lawsuit against him. Carroll asked a federal court in Manhattan on June 30 to order Trump to pay her the money she was awarded when a jury found him liable in 2023 for sexually abusing her and then for defaming her by calling her assault allegations a “con job.” The …
In 2023, Donald Trump was sentenced to pay over 48 million kronor to E Jean Carroll. That payment has still not been made. Now Trump is again trying to postpone the payment.
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The Independent (US)Trump’s last-ditch effort to stall $5.8M payout to E Jean Carroll denied by judge
President has been trying to toss the 2022 verdict for years after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse against the magazine columnist in the 1990s
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