Rapey Don has finally had to pony up some cash.

Donald Trump has posted a $91.6m (£71m) bond as he appeals against the verdict in E Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against him. A jury in January found Mr Trump owed the former columnist millions of dollars for defamation when he denied he sexually assaulted her.

A judge had rejected the former president’s request for more time to secure a bond to cover the penalty…In this year’s trial, the jury found Mr Trump liable of defamation for lying about the assault in 2019, and in January he was ordered to pay her $83.3m, much of it in punitive damages.

Judge Kaplan made the verdict official in February and gave Mr Trump 30 days to post a bond or put up the cash. On Thursday, Judge Kaplan said Mr Trump waited too long – 25 days – before seeking to delay the payment. “Mr Trump’s current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions,” he wrote.

Well he’s been busy because there are these other cases…

In February, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Mr Trump to pay $355m – which amounts to more than $450m with interest – for fraudulently inflating his assets to secure better loan deals. An appellate judge rejected Mr Trump’s request to post a bond for just a fraction of the penalty in that case.

He’s upbeat about it though.

“I have a lot of money. I can do what I want to do,” he told Fox News on Tuesday.

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