Trump denied stay on E. Jean Carroll verdict — judge cites 'his own dilatory actions'

Former President Donald Trump has lost his bid to get another extension on having to pay the judgment in the E. Jean Carroll verdict.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, Judge Lewis Kaplan has stated that Trump only has himself to blame for his current financial difficulty in paying the damages he owes to Carroll.

"Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions," he wrote in his order. "He has had since January 26 to organize his finances with the knowledge that he might need to bond his judgment, yet he waited until 25 days after the jury verdict — and only shortly before the expiration of Rule 62's automatic 30-day stay of any judgment — to file his prior motion for an unsecured or partially secured stay pending resolution of post-trial motions."

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The ruling means that Trump will have to put up a bond for the judgment while he tries to appeal to a higher court.

Trump was found liable for $83.3 million in a series of defamation and sexual abuse findings from cases brought by Carroll, who alleges the former president raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Trump has denied the allegations, claiming he doesn't even know who Carroll is and that she is fabricating the claim to advance her writing career — which formed the basis for her defamation claim.

This comes as Trump also tries to hold off on paying the even larger $464 million judgment in New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud suit for lying about the valuation of Trump Organization properties.