Federal District Judge Lewis Kaplan this morning rejected Donald Trump's request for an emergency stay on the collection of the $83.3 million dollar judgment won by E. Jean Carroll against him. Trump was asking the court for a delay pending post trial motions and appeals.
In rejecting the motion, the court noted that Trump waited 25 days after the judgment was filed to make his request right before the deadline for Carroll's lawyers to begin attaching liens on his assets. The court also noted that he hasn't even filed any post trial motions yet, only a request to delay the collection of the judgment. Judge Kaplan rejected the request and ordered that briefs be submitted next week.
"The court declines to grant any stay, much less an unsecured stay, without first having afforded plaintiff a meaningful opportunity to be heard."
While Trump and his attorney Alina Habba both claimed that he is a billionaire many times over and will have no trouble coming up with the security to post a bond pending an appeal, he hasn't yet and appears to be desperately struggling to delay any judgment being enforced, while the judges in his case clearly see through what he is trying to do.