by Ben Whedon
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals this week temporarily blocked an $83 million dollar payment that President Donald Trump owed to E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case while the Supreme Court mulls intervening.
The court order granted Trump’s request for a stay, provided he increase his bond by nearly $7.5 million.
Carroll, in 2019, accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room some time in the 1990s. She brought separate legal claims for defamation over his denials while in office and after leaving.
She secured a jury verdict and award of damages in both cases. Trump still denies her claims and has challenged both decisions. It remains unclear whether the Supreme Court will decide to intervene in the matter.
According to The Hill, Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement, “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.”
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Ben Whedon is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
It would seem a judge would not allow a jury to convict someone who does not even remember when a woman allegedly does not remember the facts of her alleged victim hood.