Trump loses attempt to delay $84m verdict in E Jean Carroll case

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s defamation verdict in a case from E Jean Carroll has rejected the former president’s attempts to dodge the $83m judgment against him.

Earlier this week, Mr Trump’s attorneys Alina Habba and John Sauer asked US District Judge Lewis Kaplan to extend a pause of the judgment, which was set to expire on Monday, putting the former president in a financial hole that “threatens to impose irreparable injury in the form of substantial costs” he might not be able to recover, his attorneys argued.

Mr Trump would be required to pay a cash bond of roughly 110 per cent of the judgment to appeal the ruling.

On Thursday, the judge said Mr Trump’s “current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions.”

“He has had since January 26 to organize his finances with the knowledge that he might need to bond this judgment, yet he waited until 25 days after the jury verdict – and only shortly before the expiration of [the] automatic 30-day stay of judgment – to file his prior motion for an unsecured or partially secured stay pending resolution of post-trial motions,” the judge wrote.

The expense of ongoing litigation without a pause of the judgment “does not constitute ‘irreparable injury’ in the relevant sense of that term,” according to the judge.

Mr Trump has also not made “any showing” of what kinds of financial damage he’d face if he posts bond, how he plans to post bond, “or any other circumstances relevant to the situation,” Judge Kaplan said.

In January, a nine-member jury determined that Mr Trump must pay Ms Carroll more than $83m in damages for his defamatory statements about the former Elle magazine writer.

He was previously found liable for sexual abuse and then lying about her sexual