上诉法院称特朗普暂时无需向 E. Jean Carroll 支付 8300 万美元

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump won't have to pay an $83 million defamation award to a longtime advice columnist until the U.S. Supreme Court gets a chance to review the case or reject an appeal, according to a court entry Tuesday.

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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a request by one of Trump's lawyers that it let the president delay the payment to E. Jean Carroll, though it required that Trump post a $7.4 million bond to cover any additional interest costs, a request Carroll's attorney had made.

The appeals court late last month refused Trump's request for a rare meeting of the full 2nd Circuit to hear an appeal of a three-judge panel's affirmance of the January 2024 verdict.

Afterward, Trump attorney Justin D. Smith asked the 2nd Circuit to stay the effect of its decision upholding the award so that Trump would not be forced to pay the judgment before the high court has a chance to consider an appeal.

Smith said last week there was a "fair prospect" that the Supreme Court will find in favor of Trump, who has called Carroll's claims first made publicly in 2019 that she was sexually attacked by Trump in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in spring 1996 a "made up scam."

The $83 million award to Carroll, 82, came from a jury that briefly heard Trump testify and observed his animated behavior for several days.

In upholding the verdict, a 2nd Circuit panel wrote last September that Trump continued his attacks against Carroll for at least five years, making them "more extreme and frequent as the trial approached."

“他在审判期间也继续进行这些同样的攻击，”上诉法院表示。 “在审判两天后发表的一份这样的声明中，特朗普宣称他将继续诽谤卡罗尔‘一千次’。”

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