Judge approves Trump’s $92 million bond to cover jury award in E. Jean Carroll defamation case
Associated PressNEW YORK — A federal judge on Tuesday approved the $92 million bond put up by former President Donald Trump to ensure that writer E. Jean Carroll will receive a jury award for his verbal attacks against her if it survives appeals. Her lawyer responded to his remarks at the Georgia rally and a Monday television appearance by suggesting that a third defamation lawsuit was possible if Trump’s verbal attacks continued. Trump had all but stopped his public attacks on Carroll in the weeks after the $83.3 million January defamation award by a jury that had been instructed only to assess damages from Trump’s 2019 statements while he was president and accept the findings of another Manhattan jury that last May awarded Carroll $5 million. Trump, 77, also faces a $454 million civil fraud penalty after a New York state judge ruled against him recently.