The federal choose who oversaw a New York defamation trial that resulted in an USD 83.3 million award to a longtime journal columnist who says Donald Trump raped her within the Nineteen Nineties refused on Thursday to alleviate the ex-president from the decision’s monetary pinch.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan informed Trump’s legal professional in a written order that he gained’t delay deadlines for posting a bond that might guarantee 80-year-old author E. Jean Carroll might be paid the award if the judgment survives appeals.

The choose mentioned any monetary hurt to the Republican front-runner for the presidency outcomes from his sluggish response to the late-January verdict within the defamation case ensuing from statements Trump made about Carroll whereas he was president in 2019 after she revealed her claims towards him in a memoir.

At the time, Trump accused her of creating up claims that he raped her within the dressing room of a luxurious Manhattan division retailer in spring 1996.

A jury final May at a trial Trump didn’t attend awarded Carroll USD 5 million in damages, discovering that Trump sexually abused her however didn’t rape her as rape was outlined below New York state legislation. It additionally concluded that he defamed her in statements in October 2022.

Trump attended the January trial and briefly testified, although his remarks had been severely restricted by the choose, who had dominated that the jury needed to settle for the May verdict and was solely to determine how a lot in damages, if any, Carroll was owed for Trump’s 2019 statements.

In the statements, Trump claimed he didn’t know Carroll and accused her of creating up lies to promote books and hurt him politically.

Trump’s legal professionals have challenged the judgment, which included a USD 65 million punitive award, saying there was a “strong probability” it is going to be lowered or eradicated on enchantment.

In his order Thursday, Kaplan famous that Trump’s legal professionals waited 25 days to hunt to delay when a bond have to be posted. The judgment turns into closing Monday.

“Mr. Trump’s current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions,” Kaplan wrote.

The choose famous that Trump’s legal professionals search to delay execution of the jury award till three days after Kaplan guidelines on their request to droop the jury award pending consideration of their challenges to the judgment as a result of preparations to submit a bond may “impose irreparable injury in the form of substantial costs.” Kaplan, although, mentioned the expense of ongoing litigation doesn’t represent irreparable damage.

“Nor has Mr. Trump made any showing of what expenses he might incur if required to post a bond or other security, on what terms (if any) he could obtain a conventional bond, or post cash or other assets to secure payment of the judgment, or any other circumstances relevant to the situation,” the choose mentioned.

Trump’s legal professional, Alina Habba, didn’t instantly remark.

Since the January verdict, a state court docket choose in New York in a separate case has ordered Trump and his corporations to pay USD 355 million in penalties for a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with monetary statements that inflated his wealth. With curiosity, he owes the state almost USD 454 million.