Donald Trump filed a $91.6 million bond in New York federal court on Friday to appeal his $83.3 million award in the defamation case of author E. Jean Carroll, according to a court document.
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This insurance-guaranteed bond must be used to cover a possible confirmation of the conviction handed down on January 26, and it was a condition for the appeal to be examined by the American justice system.
It is filed while Donald Trump, now the only candidate in the Republican race for the White House next November, was also sentenced on February 16 to $355 million in financial penalties, not including interest amounting to more than of 100 million dollars, in another case of vast financial fraud within his real estate empire.
In this case, Donald Trump offered $100 million in guarantee to be able to appeal, an offer rejected by the judge at the end of February.
The amount of money owed by the 77-year-old candidate in his legal cases, which amounts to more than $500 million, could become a handicap for his campaign.
The former President of the United States was sentenced in civil court on January 26 by a popular jury to pay enormous compensation of $83.3 million to the former columnist for the American version of Elle magazine, E. Jean Carroll, for defaming her after the author accused him in 2019 of raping her in the 1990s.
Donald Trump had already been ordered a few months earlier to pay her $5 million for other defamatory comments and because the jury found him responsible for sexually assaulting her in 1996.
He is also facing criminal charges in four separate cases, including for his alleged illegal attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential campaign.
