Appeals court temporarily blocks Trump $83M payment in E. Jean Carroll case 

A federal appeals court this week agreed President Trump can continue holding off paying writer E. Jean Carroll her $83.3 million defamation judgment until the Supreme Court decides if it will get involved. 

Trump is heading to the justices after the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit rejected his presidential immunity claims and other efforts to avoid paying the sum late last month.

Carroll, who insists Trump’s appeals are meritless, did not object to the delay as long as the president increases his bond by $7.5 million to account for additional interest he’ll owe, if unsuccessful.  

The 2nd Circuit agreed in a brief order issued Monday. 

Carroll has taken Trump to civil trial twice after publicly accusing him during his first White House term of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.  ........

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