'Gonna have to pay': E. Jean Carroll lawyer says appeal won’t help Trump delay judgment

Former President Donald Trump won't be able to exploit the appeals process in order to skirt paying journalist E. Jean Carroll, according to one of her attorneys.

In a Friday night interview with MSNBC host Chris Hayes, attorney Shawn Crowley — who represented Carroll in her defamation trial alongside lawyer Roberta Kaplan — explained that even though the former president is appealing the $83.3 million judgment, he'll still have to put up the money while a decision is pending.

"We feel confident in our arguments [on appeal], and ultimately she will collect that judgment," Crowley said. "He's gonna have to pay at least a big portion of this money before he even wins on appeal."

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"It has to be there to be certain that it's gonna be there when we win the appeal, and then certainly, after the appeal is — we hope we're victorious on appeal — he's gonna have to pay it," she added.

Trump lawyer Alina Habba vowed in a press gaggle outside the courthouse to appeal the jury's decision to award Carroll $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages. However, Crowley is right that regardless of how the appeals court rules, the former president will still have to write a very large check to the court while judges weigh his arguments.

According to New York-based Pedersen & Sons Surety Bond Agency Inc., a civil appeal doesn't delay a judgment from being paid. In fact, filing an appeal requires a bond that includes additional statutory interest that, in Trump's case, would amount to an additional $7.5 million to the court.

"The requested bond is generally an amount greater than the judgment sum—[New York civil law] requires that post-judgment interest and cost are included in the amount. New York State has a 9% statutory interest running on any judgment entered," the bond agency's website reads.

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