Trump loses bid to delay $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation judgment

• Donald Trump lost a bid to delay paying an $83.3 million civil defamation judgment to writer E. Jean Carroll.
• Trump had asked Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan to delay the judgment from taking effect until after he rules on post-trial motions in the case.
• The judgment is just one of three civil damages awards against Trump, who owes a total of $540 million to the New York state attorney general and Carroll, while he is on track to be the Republican presidential nominee.

A New York judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Donald Trump to delay a $83.3 million civil defamation judgment in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll.

The ruling means that Trump by Monday must pay Carroll, or post a bond or assets as collateral against the judgment while appealing a jury's verdict in January that as president he defamed her after she accused him in 2019 of rape.

The judgment is just one of three civil damages awards against Trump, who owes a total of $540 million to the New York state attorney general and Carroll, while on track to become the Republican presidential nominee.

Trump had asked Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan to pause the latest Carroll case judgment until after he rules on post-trial motions.

His attorney Alina Habba in a filing Wednesday requested a delay "until three business days after the Court rules on his stay motion."

But Kaplan, in his denial order Thursday, wrote that 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" to ask for a pause in the judgment, Kaplan wrote.

The judge also rejected an argument from Trump's lawyers