Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference after attending the E. Jean Carroll second civil trial in New York City on Jan. 17, 2024.
Shannon Stapleton | Reuters
Former President Donald Trump on Friday appealed a civil defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll, and posted a $91.6 million bond as he asked to avoid having to pay damages he owes her as he pursues that appeal.
The appeal came just three days before Trump faced a deadline to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in 2019, when as president, he first denied her allegation that he had raped her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.
The $91.6 million bond he posted is meant to secure that damage award in the event his appeal of January’s jury verdict fails. Trump will get the money from the bond back if he wins his appeal.
Carroll in a Substack post later Friday called the bond size “stupendous,” and suggested that she would have quickly begun seizing Trump’s assets if he had not secured the judgment by the deadline.
She added that her while attorney, Roberta Kaplan, “is strong enough to yank a golden toilet out of the floor at Trump Tower and toss it through the window, this bond saves Robbie the trouble of showing up with US Marshals on Monday to do so.”
Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Carroll’s lawyer, on Thursday denied a request by Trump to delay paying the writer.
E. Jean Carroll and her attorneys Shawn Crowley and Roberta Kaplan react outside the Manhattan Federal Court after the verdict in the second civil trial after she accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, in New York City on Jan. 26, 2024.
Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters
The bond was issued by Federal Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Chubb Insurance Company, based in Chesapeake, Virginia, according to a copy of the document Trump signed. It represents 110% of the total damages awarded to Carroll in the case, which reflects…
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