Trump loses bid to delay Carroll’s $5 million trial payout

A federal judge ordered the release of $5 million to New York writer E. Jean Carroll in her sexual-abuse lawsuit against Donald Trump, rejecting the president’s request to delay the payout while he asks the Supreme Court to reconsider his appeal.

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan on Wednesday ordered the court clerk to release $5 million plus interest that Trump deposited after the verdict in May 2023, to allow his appeal. Carroll’s lawyer has said the total amount is now $5.77 million.

Less than an hour after Kaplan’s ruling, Trump filed a notice that he’ll ask the federal appeals court in Manhattan to review it, setting up yet another legal fight that could........

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