A federal decide on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s request for 3 additional days to pay damages in author E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case in opposition to the previous president.
The cost’s scheduled due date is Monday. Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million, and with curiosity the total quantity can be $91.6 million.
U.S. District Decide Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the trial, mentioned Trump has had loads of time to rearrange for cost within the weeks since a jury in January discovered him chargeable for defamation by denying that he sexually abused Carroll within the 90s in a dressing room on the Bergdorf Goodman division retailer in Manhattan.
“Mr. Trump’s present state of affairs is a results of his personal dilatory actions,” Kaplan wrote in his order. “He has had since January 26 to arrange his funds with the data that he may must bond this judgment.”
Trump attorneys Alina Habba and John Sauer didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Thursday night time.
On Wednesday, Habba requested Kaplan to briefly pause imposing the decision till three enterprise days after the court docket guidelines on a longer-term keep in an effort to get forward of Monday’s deadline finalizing the judgment.
Trump final month sought an extended pause in enforcement of the decision, pending decision of his post-trial motions. Kaplan has but to rule on that request.
Trump’s attorneys on Tuesday filed for a brand new trial within the case and requested that Kaplan considerably cut back the judgment. They contended that the jury’s compensatory and punitive awards have been out of proportion, and argued that the $11 million award for reputational hurt “is disproportionately excessive” in comparison with awards in comparable instances.