NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump appealed on Friday his order to pay $83.3 million (76.11 million euros) in damages to journalist E. Jean Carroll for defamation.
The appeal filed with a Manhattan appeals court will concern “all judgments, orders, decrees, decisions, opinions, notes, or adverse conclusions” leading to this conviction on January 26, he said.
The former American president, very likely Republican candidate in the November 5 election, also revealed that he had obtained a judicial bond of $91.63 million from a guarantor, in accordance with the practice of the court which demands generally a security deposit equivalent to 110% of the sums requested by the judge.
Donald Trump had previously ruled out posting bail.
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Now 80 years old, E. Jean Carroll, former columnist for Elle magazine in particular, filed a complaint in November 2019 against Donald Trump five months after the latter denied having raped her in the fitting room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
(Jonathan Stempel, Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the French version, edited by Sophie Louet)
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