A federal judge on July 4 denied President Donald Trump’s request for more time to respond to E. Jean Carroll’s demand that he pay nearly $5.8 million she won in her civil lawsuit against him, USA Today reported.
The denial from U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan ran just one sentence. It leaves Trump with a July 7 deadline to answer Carroll’s motion.
Trump’s lawyers had asked for more time in a July 3 filing, seeking a deadline of July 14, according to court records reported by Law&Crime. They said former lead counsel Justin D. Smith left the case after his June 15 confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and that new lead counsel Josh Halpern needed time to get up to speed.
Carroll had asked the court June 30 to disburse $5,779,783 from the court registry — the $5 million judgment plus post-judgment interest as of that date. Her filing came a day after the Supreme Court declined June 29 to review the 2023 verdict.
In that motion, her lawyers said Trump was continuing to delay payment, calling him “dilatory” and accusing him of “slow-roll[ing] his defenses” while interest accrued.
But this is the end of the line — Carroll’s lawyers, June 30 filing
In her lawsuit, Carroll alleged Trump attacked her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s, then defamed her in 2022 by denying her account. A jury in 2023 found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her and awarded her $5 million. Trump has denied the allegations and continued to challenge the verdict.
Carroll also won a second, much larger verdict. In 2024, a different Manhattan civil jury ordered Trump to pay her $83.3 million for defaming her in 2019, when he first publicly denied her allegations. Trump is still fighting that award on appeal.
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