E. Jean Carroll has mocked Donald Trump after he posted bond to cover the defamation verdict reached against him earlier this year.
On Friday, Trump posted a $91.6 million bond after the verdict ruled in Carroll’s favor in a highly covered defamation trial that concluded on January 26. The decision came nine months after the former U.S. president was found liable for sexually assaulting her in a department-store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The bond from Federal Insurance Co would cover Carroll’s $83.3 million judgment if he were to lose his appeal and refuse to pay the writer. Newsweek has contacted Trump for comment via the contact form on his website outside of normal working hours.
However, Carroll, 80, doesn’t appear to be in low spirits about the matter. She posted an image of the motion that confirms Trump’s bond posting on her blog Ask E. Jean, which she titled “SURPRISE!”
Carroll wrote: “Though the illustrious Robbie 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.” Roberta Kaplan is the lawyer who represented Carroll in the trial against Trump.
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Prior to posting the bond, Trump’s request to delay the due date of the $83.3 million he owes to Carroll was denied by a federal judge in Manhattan, New York, on Thursday. “Mr. Trump’s current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions,” Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote. “He has had since Jan. 26 to organize his finances.”
In the court filing that Carroll posted on her blog, Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba requested that the judge grant the bond covering the full amount and stay execution of the judgment. This would have become final on Monday if Trump had not posted the bond before then. The posting of a bond also means Carroll will not be able to collect on the judgment while the appeals process is ongoing.
Trump has not yet commented publicly on the bond posting. Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Republican’s presidential campaign, said the former president posted the bond even though he believes the judgment to be “baseless” and pinned it on a Democratic “witch hunt,” according to a report by Reuters.
Following Nikki Haley dropping out of the race for Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, Trump will face off against incumbent President Joe Biden in November.
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