NEW YORK: Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump have asked a federal judge not to authorize a disbursement of a multi-million dollar damages award to magazine writer E. Jean Carroll to satisfy a 2023 civil verdict in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. In a filing late on Tuesday night in Manhattan federal court, Trump's lawyers said Carroll should wait until the U.S. Supreme Court hears Trump's renewed bid to overturn the $5 million verdict, which has grown to about $5.8 million including interest.
The lawyers said Trump would be irreparably harmed and face "unrecoverable loss" if Carroll fulfills her stated intention to give away the money, because once she does the money likely could not be recovered.
