Appeals Court Lets Trump Delay Paying $83-million Defamation Award To E. Jean Carroll

NEW YORK — President Trump won’t person to salary an $83-million defamation grant to a longtime proposal columnist until nan U.S. Supreme Court gets a chance to reappraisal nan lawsuit aliases cull an appeal, according to a tribunal introduction Tuesday.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a petition by 1 of Trump’s lawyers to fto nan president hold nan costs to E. Jean Carroll, though it required that Trump station a $7.4-million enslaved to screen immoderate further liking costs, a petition Carroll’s lawyer had made.

The appeals tribunal precocious past period refused Trump’s petition for a uncommon gathering of nan afloat 2nd Circuit to perceive an entreaty of a three-judge panel’s affirmation of nan January 2024 verdict.

Afterward, Trump lawyer Justin D. Smith asked nan 2nd Circuit to enactment nan effect of its determination upholding nan grant truthful that nan president would not beryllium forced to salary nan judgement earlier nan precocious tribunal has a chance to see an appeal.

Smith said past week location was a “fair prospect” that nan Supreme Court will find successful favour of Trump, who has called Carroll’s claims — first made publically successful 2019 — that she was sexually attacked by Trump successful a Manhattan luxury section shop dressing room successful nan outpouring of 1996, a “made-up scam.”

The $83-million grant to Carroll, 82, came from a assemblage that concisely heard Trump attest and observed his animated behaviour for respective days.

In upholding nan verdict, a 2nd Circuit sheet wrote successful September 2025 that Trump continued his attacks against Carroll for astatine slightest 5 years, making them “more utmost and predominant arsenic nan proceedings approached.”

“He besides continued these aforesaid attacks during nan proceedings itself,” nan appeals tribunal said. “In 1 specified statement, issued 2 days into nan trial, Trump proclaimed that he would proceed to defame Carroll ‘a 1000 times.’ ”

The assemblage had been instructed to judge nan findings of a assemblage that successful May 2023 awarded Carroll $5 cardinal aft concluding Trump sexually abused her successful nan section shop and past defamed her aft she published her relationship of it successful a 2019 memoir.

Trump is challenging nan $83-million grant connected respective grounds, asserting “absolute immunity” for comments he made while president arsenic he disavowed knowing Carroll and attacked her motivations, saying they were politically driven aliases arose from a desire to beforehand her memoir.

Sisak and Neumeister constitute for nan Associated Press.