Trump Wins Pause of $83.3 Million Payment to E. Jean Carroll (1)

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Tuesday paused the payment after Trump asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the verdict in Carroll’s defamation lawsuit.

• Carroll was awarded the money after a New York jury in 2024 found Trump ridiculed her allegations that he sexually assaulted her in a department store in the 1990s
• “We are pleased that the Second Circuit conditioned the stay on President Trump posting a bond of nearly $100 million — increasing the $91,630,000 bond he originally posted by another $7,462,492.74 to account for the accruing post-judgment interest,” Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, ...