Judge puts pressure on
Trump can no longer delay the execution of his sentence
Former US President Donald Trump is currently trying by all means to delay a gigantic fine - probably due to his ailing finances. However, a US federal judge has now rejected his request to postpone the enforcement of an 83.3 million dollar judgment in the libel case against the writer E. Jean Carroll was denied.
"Mr. Trump's current situation is the result of his own delaying tactics," said US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, explaining his decision. Trump had attempted to delay the execution of the judgment and only filed his motions to dismiss the judgment on Tuesday.
According to Kaplan, Trump should not have waited until 25 days after the verdict before applying for a stay. The judge's decision now increases the pressure on the former US president to pay the bail he was expecting.
No "irreparable harm" to Trump
On January 26, the jury agreed in its verdict with E. Jean Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, that Trump had defamed her in June 2019 by denying that he had raped her in a Manhattan department store changing room in the mid-1990s.
Judge Kaplan made the sentence official on Feb. 8, giving Trump 30 days to post a $24.5 million bail or raise cash while he appeals. Trump also failed to show that he could suffer "irreparable harm" if he had to post bail.
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