周四，纽约一名法官驳回了唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)关于暂时推迟对让·卡罗尔(E. Jean Carroll)诽谤案处罚的请求，这位前总统有三天时间支付或缴纳8330万美元的判决保证金。
刘易斯·卡普兰法官表示，他仍在考虑特朗普要求减少保证金或推迟到他的审判后动议得到解决时提出的请求。
“特朗普先生目前的状况是他自己拖延行动的结果，”卡普兰在周四晚些时候的命令中写道。“自1月26日以来，他一直在组织他的财务，因为他知道他可能需要担保这一判决，但他一直等到陪审团裁决后25天...在审后动议得到解决之前，提出无担保或部分有担保的暂缓令。”
卡普兰表示，特朗普未能表明该判决如何构成“不可挽回的伤害”，也未能通过提交该案的保证金来证明他面临的费用。
卡普兰写道:“在没有中止的情况下，正在进行的诉讼的费用并不构成该术语相关意义上的‘不可挽回的伤害’。”
针对这一裁决，特朗普竞选团队发言人张致恒表示，“特朗普总统及时提出了一项动议，要求暂缓执行这一荒谬的判决，包括第二巡回法院在内的许多法院都认识到了在考虑此类动议时暂时行政暂缓的重要性。我们期待着继续就此案提起诉讼，并彻底证明真相。”
卡普兰法官做出裁决之前，这位前总统经历了一个动荡的月，他的律师们一致努力推迟特朗普欠下的5亿美元的各种判决。
今年1月，陪审团裁定卡罗尔8330万美元的损害赔偿在确定特朗普在否认她声称他在20世纪90年代在百货公司更衣室对她进行性侵犯的同时诽谤了她之后。特朗普的律师曾辩称，该案的判决是错误的，支付8330万美元将对这位前总统造成“不可挽回的巨大损失”。
卡罗尔的律师反驳了这一延迟，认为特朗普未能提供有关其自身财务状况的关键信息来证明延迟的合理性。
卡罗尔的律师写道:“特朗普寻求这种非凡解脱的理由可以归结为‘相信我’。”“他没有提供任何关于他的财务状况或资产性质和位置的信息。他没有具体说明他的流动资产占多大比例，也没有解释卡罗尔可能会如何收集资产。
在另一起民事案件中，纽约一名法官上月裁定特朗普偿还454 156 783美元十年欺诈性商业行为的赔偿加上判决前的利息。特朗普通过他的律师同样认为该决定有缺陷，要求推迟，并提出支付1亿美元的保证金。特朗普的律师表示，如果法院不同意暂缓执行，这位前总统可能不得不出售他的一些财产，以筹集足够的资金来支付债券。
纽约州总检察长利蒂夏·詹姆斯拒绝了请求在一份文件中警告称，特朗普及其共同被告可能试图逃避经济处罚。
“与被告的论点相反，被告在上诉后很有可能试图逃避执行判决(或加大执行难度)，”文件称。
上周，纽约上诉部门拒绝了暂停经济处罚的请求，但澄清说特朗普禁止获得纽约融资的禁令不适用于债券公司。
特朗普上周在裁决后在社交媒体上说:“我没有做错什么，除了建立了一家成功的、流动性非常好的公司，拥有世界上最伟大的一些房产。”
支付8330万美元诽谤判决的最后期限是周一，特朗普民事欺诈案的4.54亿美元判决将于本月晚些时候到期。
Judge won't let Trump delay E. Jean Carroll penalties, leaving him with days to cover $83M judgment
A New York judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump's request for a temporary delay of the penalties in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case, leaving the former president three days to pay or post a bond for the entire $83.3 million judgment.
Judge Lewis Kaplan signaled he is still considering Trump's request for a reduced bond or a delay until the resolution of his post-trial motions.
"Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions," Kaplan wrote in his order late Thursday. "He has had since January 26 to organize his finances with the knowledge that he might need to bond this judgment, yet he waited until 25 days after the jury verdict ... to file his prior motion for an unsecured or partially secured stay pending resolution of post-trial motions."
Kaplan said that Trump failed to show how the judgment constitutes an "irreparable injury" or demonstrate the expenses he faces by posting a bond in the case.
"The expense of ongoing litigation in the absence of a stay does not constitute 'irreparable injury' in the relevant sense of that term," Kaplan wrote.
Responding to the ruling, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said, "President Trump filed a timely motion to stay the ridiculous judgment, and many courts, including the Second Circuit, recognize the importance of temporary administrative stays while such motions are considered. We look forward to continuing to litigate the case and to complete vindication of the truth."
Judge Kaplan's decision follows a whirlwind month for the former president, whose lawyers have made a concerted push to delay the half a billion dollars in various judgments owed by Trump.
In January, a jury awarded Carroll$83.3 million in damagesafter determining that Trump defamed her while denying her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Trump's lawyers had argued that the case was wrongly decided, and that covering the $83.3 million would cause the former president "irreparable injury in the form of substantial costs."
Lawyers for Carroll pushed back against the delay, arguing that Trump failed to offer critical information about his own finances to justify the delay.
"The reasoning Trump offers in seeking this extraordinary relief boils down to nothing more than 'trust me,'" Carroll's attorneys wrote. "He doesn't offer any information about his finances or the nature and location of his assets. He doesn't specify what percentage of his assets are liquid or explain how Carroll might go about collecting."
In a separate civil case, a New York judge last month ordered that Trumppay back $454,156,783in disgorgement plus pre-judgment interest for a decade of fraudulent business practices. Trump, through his attorneys, similarly argued that the decision was flawed, requested a delay, and offered to pay a $100 million bond. Trump's lawyers said that, if the court did not grant a stay, the former president might have to sell some of his properties to raise enough money to cover the bond.
New York Attorney General Letitia Jamespushed back on the request, warning in a filing that Trump and his co-defendants might attempt to evade the financial penalty.
"Contrary to defendants' argument, there is substantial risk that defendants will attempt to evade enforcement of the judgment (or make enforcement more difficult) following appeal," the filing said.
New York's Appellate Division denied the request for a stay of the financial penalties last week but clarified that Trump's ban on accessing New York-based financing does not apply to bond companies.
"I did nothing wrong, except build a successful and very liquid company, owning some of the Greatest Properties in the World," Trump said on social media following the ruling last week.
The deadline to pay the $83.3 million defamation judgment is on Monday, and Trump's $454 million judgment in his civil fraud case is due later this month.
