Donald Trump was warned by a former federal prosecutor on Sunday that, if he fails to post a bond or pay the full amount owed to E. Jean Carroll, the columnist's attorneys can "get to work" on collecting the judgment for defamation after this week.
Trump lost two defamation trials against Carroll, with a jury finding him liable in the first for sexually assaulting her. He was ordered to pay $5 million in the first trial, and more than $83 million in the second one.
MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance wrote Sunday evening that the former president is facing a critical deadline in that case this coming week.
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In a post on Substack, Vance said it's "not all good news for Trump this week."
"That's because Trump has to post a bond in the E. Jean Carroll case by next weekend, or Carroll can begin to collect on her $83.3 million judgment against him," the legal expert wrote. "This is commonly referred to as an appeal bond."
She continues:
"If Trump manages to either get a bond or pay the full amount of the judgment into a court account, then Carroll cannot begin efforts to collect it while the appeal is pending. If he fails to do so, her lawyer Roberta Kaplan can get to work."
Vance goes on to describe how Trump has asked the court to "break the rules just for him."
"He also offered to bargain with the court over the amount of bond he’d have to post, asking for a 'substantially reduced bond,'" she wrote. "This isn’t how it works, and the court smacked down his request promptly, writing, 'The Court declines to grant any stay, much less an unsecured stay, without first having afforded plaintiff a meaningful opportunity to be heard.'"
