In a new court filing, E. Jean Carroll opposed Trump’s request to stay the $83.3 million judgment. Trump has a week to pay.
Carroll’s lawyers wrote in response to Trump’s suspension request:
Nearly a month after the jury returned its verdict in this case, defendant Donald J. Trump filed another motion for a stay, this time to stay the execution of the sentence without bail or any other security that would have secured that plaintiff E. Jean Carroll will be able to collect the $83.3 million Trump now owes her. The reasoning Trump offers in seeking this extraordinary relief boils down to nothing more than “trust me.”
He offers no information about his finances or the nature and location of his assets. It does not specify what percentage of his assets are liquid or explain how Carroll might go about collecting it. He doesn’t even recognize the risks that now accompany his financial situation, from a half-billion-dollar judgment obtained from New York’s attorney general to 91 felony charges that could permanently end his career as a businessman. He simply asks the Court to “trust me” and offers, in a case with an $83.3 million judgment against him, the equivalent of a paper towel; signed by the least reliable borrower.
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Trump’s lawyers made clear in filings relating to his request for a stay of adjudication in the fraud case that the former president does not have the money to post bail for an appeal. Trump didn’t even bother to offer a reduced bail to E. Jean Carroll
No one should trust Donald Trump, and Carroll won’t.
Donald Trump owes E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million plus an additional five million over the original $5 million judgment, which means Trump owes her $90 million, and she wants to be paid.
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