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Trump again tries to avoid paying defamed writer Carroll

Left: Journalist E. Jean Carroll departs from the courthouse after the conclusion of the damages trial against Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court on Friday, January 26, 2024 in New York City. (John Angelillo, Alamy Live News via AP)/ Right: Republican former President Donald Trump speaks at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., Jan. 23, 2024. AP Photo/Matt Rourke.)

Left: Journalist E. Jean Carroll departs from the courthouse after the conclusion of the damages trial against Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court on Friday, January 26, 2024 in New York City. (John Angelillo, Alamy Live News via AP). Right: Republican former President Donald Trump speaks at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke.)

For a third time, lawyers for Donald Trump wish to delay paying an $83.3 million court-ordered defamation award to writer E. Jean Carroll, this time arguing her lawyers have been “clearly inconsistent” with their positions on whether Trump has the wealth to secure bond for the award, making the writer’s worries over whether Trump can be trusted to pay out, moot.

Last week, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan excoriated the former president’s delay tactics, saying his second proposal toward the end of last month for an unsecured stay of the payment was the “court filing equivalent of a paper napkin” and that it was utterly impossible for the writer or her lawyer to merely “trust” that Trump would pay without something to bind him to the deal. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, had already denied one previous attempt by Trump to reduce bond or stay the payment.

In response to Trump’s latest request, the judge issued a single-page, terse order.

“On Friday, Feb. 23, the defendant moved for an unsecured or partially secured stay on the plaintiff’s judgment pending the disposition of post-trial motions. No post-trial motions have been filed yet. Moreover, briefing of the defendant’s stay motion was not completed until the late afternoon of March 2, 2024. Nevertheless, the court is aware of defendant’s request for a decision on the stay motion no later than today ‘to allow time for [him] to finalize arrangements for an appropriate bond if necessary,” Kaplan wrote. “A decision will be rendered as promptly as is reasonably possible. Without implying what that decision will be, or when it will be made, however, it will not come today.”

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