Judge denies Trump request for more time to pay damages in Carroll defamation case
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Trump has had plenty of time to arrange for payment since a jury rendered its $83.3 million verdict in January.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s request for three extra days to pay damages in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president.
The payment's scheduled due date is Monday. Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million, and with interest the full amount will be $91.6 million.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the trial in New York, said Trump has had plenty of time to arrange for payment in the weeks since a jury in January found him liable for defamation by denying that he sexually abused Carroll in the ’90s in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan.
“Mr. Trump’s current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions,” Kaplan wrote in his order. “He has had since January 26 to organize his finances with the knowledge that he might need to bond this judgment.”
A campaign spokesman for Trump blasted the order in a statement Thursday.
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