E. Jean Carroll's lawyer on Thursday shot back at Donald Trump's request for a pause in paying his court fines after a jury awarded her over $88 million in two defamation cases — and onlookers said she didn't hold back.
MSNBC host Chris Jansing announced the news. "It is brutal," she said.
"This is page one, 'There is absolutely no basis in law for Trump’s requested relief."
"He simply asks the court to 'trust me' and offers in a case with an $83.3 million judgment against him the court filing equivalent of a paper napkin signed by the least trustworthy of borrowers," the filing continues.
Legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained that it's just the first argument outlined by Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan.
"This is an effort by Donald Trump to get an indefinite stay without having to post the kind of appeals bond that we have been discussing not only in this case, but also in the civil fraud trial that the attorney general recently won," Rubin said.
"And, in fact, they bring that civil fraud trial up as one of their concerns about Trump's cash position."
According to a filing Wednesday in the fraud trial, Trump confessed he's broke and needs to start selling off assets if he is to pay his damages, set at $355 million and accumulating substantial interest every day.
"In the absence of a stay on the terms herein outlined, properties would likely need to be sold to raise capital under exigent circumstances," Trump's attorneys wrote. "And there would be no way to recover any property sold following a successful appeal and no means to recover the resulting financial losses from the Attorney General."
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According to Carroll's lawyer, Trump is trying to get a stay on paying without any security. The way it works now, Trump must put up a bond to secure the payment before he can appeal. Despite telling Carroll's lawyer in a deposition that he had about $400 million in cash, it appears that is not actually true.
"Trump still has an opportunity to brief that, but they're saying, we can see that he is desperate and then going back to the point that you raised, which is they say there is no transparency or trustworthiness when it comes to his financial situation because again and again, we've seen him try to hide the ball with the American people and with the public," Rubin explained.
She noted that Carroll's lawyer cites "everything from the evidence and case that Judge Arthur Engoron decided, same New York civil fraud case, but also to our friend and colleague, Susanne Craig is reporting for the New York Times where she excavated years of Trump's tax returns and other financial information to show that his financial picture was not what he portrayed it to be to the American public."
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance highlighted that Carroll's argument ends by pointing out that Trump's "request for even a reduced bond, as opposed to the full payment, is legally meritless. The bottom line? Trump, the self-proclaimed billionaire, is struggling with the bond and can't float the entire sum."
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