Lawyers for Donald Trump have launched a desperate bid to avoid paying damages to E. Jean Carroll, the former Elle columnist whom a jury found the president liable for sexually abusing.
In filings submitted Tuesday night in a New York court, Trump’s legal team argued to a judge that Carroll should not receive the $5 million in damages awarded to her in 2023 until the conclusion of a renewed Supreme Court bid to have the case thrown out.
The nation’s highest court last month rejected Trump’s appeal seeking to overturn the civil verdict and order a new trial. In May 2023, a jury unanimously found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll at New York City’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in the 1990s and for defaming her by denying the incident took place.
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