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E. Jean Carroll Could Sue Trump

Again Over New Attacks, Lawyer
Suggests
As the former president awaited approval of his $91.6 million
bond, his lawyers also filed a last-ditch request to delay his
upcoming Manhattan criminal trial.

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The bond, which must still be approved by a judge, will prevent E. Jean Carroll from
collecting the judgment in her defamation case against Donald J. Trump while he
appeals. Brittainy Newman for The New York Times

By Benjamin Weiser , Maggie Haberman and Ben Protess

March 11, 2024 Updated 3:53 p.m. ET

Just days after Donald J. Trump posted a $91.6 million bond in the
defamation case he lost recently to the writer E. Jean Carroll, her
lawyer on Monday suggested she was considering filing a third
defamation lawsuit against the former president.

The lawyer raised the prospect of a new lawsuit after Mr. Trump in
recent days repeatedly lashed out at Ms. Carroll, using the same
kind of disparaging language that led to the huge judgment against
him in January.

“The statute of limitations for defamation in most jurisdictions is

between one and three years,” Roberta A. Kaplan, Ms. Carroll’s
lawyer, said in a statement Monday morning. “As we said after the
last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that
Donald Trump makes about our client.”

In a separate court filing, Ms. Kaplan told the federal judge

overseeing the case that she and Mr. Trump’s lawyers had reached
an agreement on the details of his proposed $91.6 million bond.

The bond — provided by Federal Insurance Company, an arm of

the insurance giant Chubb — would prevent Ms. Carroll from
collecting her $83.3 million judgment while Mr. Trump appeals the
defamation verdict. The bond is higher than the judgment because
the former president is also responsible for interest.

What to Know About E. Jean Carroll’s Accusations

Two lawsuits. E. Jean Carroll, a writer who says Donald Trump raped her in
the mid 1990s, filed two separate lawsuits against the former president.
Here’s what to know:

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The judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, who is not related to Ms. Kaplan, must
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still approve the proposed bond. Doing a Lot of
Returning Lately
The race to secure the bond before Monday’s deadline came as Mr.
Trump was on the clock to obtain a bond for another huge A Multitasker’s
Guide to Regaining
judgment in a civil fraud case brought by the New York attorney Focus
general’s office. In that case, Mr. Trump must post a nearly half-
illion-dollar bond by March 25, or the attorney general’s office can Something Old.
Something New.
begin seizing his assets while he appeals. Something Thrifted.

Mr. Trump lacks the cash to come up with both bonds at once,
placing him in financial peril at an already hectic time. He also
faces four criminal indictments — with the trial in the first case
beginning in Manhattan in two weeks — all while he is on the cusp
of becoming the Republican presidential nominee for the third
time.

Although the former president boasts of his billions, his net worth
is derived largely from the value of his real estate. He has more
than $350 million in cash, a recent New York Times analysis found,
far short of what he needs to obtain bonds in both cases.

An appeal bond is a promise from the company offering it to cover

a judgment if a defendant — in this case, Mr. Trump — loses an
appeal and fails to pay. In exchange, Mr. Trump must pay the
company a premium and pledge collateral, including as much cash
as possible.

Mr. Trump has twice attacked Ms. Carroll in recent days, using the
type of language that has led to two defamation findings against
him, most recently a jury’s $83.3 million award in January.

On Saturday evening at a rally in Rome, Ga., Mr. Trump

complained bitterly about the bond he had to post, insisted Ms.
Carroll’s accusations were false and said that she was “not a
believable person.”

Mr. Trump doubled down on those remarks Monday morning

during a telephone interview with CNBC, mocking Ms. Carroll as
“Ms. Bergdorf Goodman,” a reference to the luxury department
store in Manhattan where Mr. Trump was found liable by a civil
jury last year for sexually abusing her in the mid-1990s and
defaming her years later.

In the interview, Mr. Trump called the decisions against him

“ridiculous,” without elaboration.

“I got charged — I was given a false accusation and had to post a

$91 million bond on a false accusation,” said Mr. Trump, who was
not in fact charged criminally in the case.

In the Manhattan criminal case that is set to go to trial on March

25, Mr. Trump is accused of covering up a potential sex scandal
during and after the 2016 presidential campaign. That case,
brought by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, is the first of
Mr. Trump’s four criminal indictments to move to trial.

With his other criminal cases mired in the appeals process and
other delays, it might be the only one to go to trial before Election
Day.

The trial in Mr. Trump’s Washington criminal case, which involves

accusations that he plotted to overturn the 2020 election, was
originally scheduled to begin last week. But the Supreme Court
agreed to consider whether he is immune from prosecution on
charges involving official acts he took while president, throwing
the trial into doubt.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers have also made a last-ditch effort to delay the
Manhattan trial, arguing that the judge overseeing the case should
wait until after the Supreme Court has ruled on the immunity issue,
which may not happen until June.

“President Trump is entitled to immunity from prosecution based

on evidence of official acts that he undertook during his first term
in office,” his lawyers wrote in a court filing made public on
Monday.

The judge in the case, Juan M. Merchan, is unlikely to grant the

request. “The issue of the state proceedings I don’t believe is for
the Supreme Court,” he said at a recent hearing.

Mr. Trump’s request to delay the Manhattan trial was hardly his
first attempt to play the timing of the cases against each other. On
Monday, his lawyers also asked the judge overseeing the federal
criminal case in Florida, where he stands accused of mishandling
classified documents, to give them an extra 10 days to file a round
of court papers, citing their need to prepare for his trial in
Manhattan.

Benjamin Weiser is a reporter covering the Manhattan federal courts. He has long
covered criminal justice, both as a beat and investigative reporter. Before joining The
Times in 1997, he worked at The Washington Post. More about Benjamin Weiser
Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the 2024 presidential
campaign, down ballot races across the country and the investigations into former
President Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman
Ben Protess is an investigative reporter at The Times, writing about public corruption.
He has been covering the various criminal investigations into former President Trump
and his allies. More about Ben Protess

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