Moments after the jury decided Donald Trump was to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million, he vowed to appeal the verdict. At the end of February, his lawyers requested to postpone the due date of his $83.3 million bond until a month after Judge Kaplan makes a decision on Trump’s post-trial motions, per ABC News. Otherwise, his team asked the courts to reduce his bond to $24.475 million. However, Judge Kaplan replied, “The Court declines to grant any stay, much less an unsecured stay, without first having afforded plaintiff a meaningful opportunity to be heard.” Carroll was given until February 29 to respond.
Carroll’s lawyers filed a motion asking the courts to deny Trump’s request, stating that he has no good reason to delay the payment. “The reasoning Trump offers in seeking this extraordinary relief boils down to nothing more than ‘trust me’. He doesn’t offer any information about his finances or the nature and location of his assets. He doesn’t specify what percentage of his assets are liquid or explain how Carroll might go about collecting,” stated the legal filings obtained by The Guardian. With the due date of March 8 looming dangerously close, Trump is grasping at all straws, and he has asked the courts for a new trial against Carroll.
