Trump posts nearly $92 million bond in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

And this just hit CNN. We have learned that Donald Trump is appealing an $83

million

judgment against him in the E Jean Carroll

defamation

case

. Now, this comes as a key deadline looms. He has until Monday to hand over that money after the judge denied his request for more time. The judge says Trump has more than a month to get his finances in order. She was ordered to pay Carroll damages as a result of defamatory statements he made about her while he denied raping her. Well, this

case

takes place in New York. That's where we find our Kara Scannell.

And we just got some news about this. So today let's talk again about where we are right now. Yes, Becky, that's right. I mean, this news is still developing. And right now I'm seeing that Donald Trump has filed another court filing in which he asks the judge to approve bail in the amount of $91.6

million

. This judgment was 83.3 million dollars. The courts usually require some extra money to come up because the appeals process takes a long time and just to ensure that he will be there. So it looks like Donald Trump has filed bail for this case.

That deadline was right around the corner. Technically it's tomorrow, but because deadlines fall and weekends and court cases go until Monday. So Donald Trump is posting bail in this case now. So he also filed, as you said, a brief of appeal. That's why he's asking the appeals court to weigh in on this. He has also asked the trial judge to reduce the amount of damages the jury awarded to Eugene Carol in that case, saying they were excessive. So this will all be something that will be discussed. But it seems that he met the deadline, he presented a

bond

before the judge and asked him to approve it.

You know, that's just one of these two massive trials that Donald Trump is facing. He also faces a deadline later this month to post $454 million bail. That's in the New York attorney general's civil fraud case. A judge determined that Trump was responsible and imposed this massive fine essentially against Trump. Now, he had asked a New York appeals court to give him time to get that money, but an appeals court judge said he would not extend the deadline. That deadline is March 25. So that clock is ticking. Trump has asked the full panel of appeals court judges to consider giving him more time to post this bail or pay a smaller amount.

They are filing legal briefs in that case and tell us a decision is expected at the end of the month. But this, again, is another one that looks like it's going to go the distance because both at the end of the month and on March 25th around the same time, which is also when Donald Trump will hear jury selection in his first criminal trial. in New York related to the cover-up of money payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Becky Kyra. Thank you. Tell me about another case that we are obviously still following. There are new developments in Trump's criminal case outside of Florida.

What's happening? Well, the Department of Justice is responding to the things that Donald Trump is trying to argue to get the case dismissed. Two of their main arguments yesterday in court papers filed before Judge Eileen Cannon overseeing the classified documents case are that prosecutors say Donald Trump should not be allowed to be above the law. His argument is that because he took these records out of the White House and brought them to Mar a Lago, they should be able to be his. And the Justice Department says he should be able to be held accountable for taking national security records that should not have been at Mar a Lago after the presidency.

They are also arguing it in one of his arguments where he says that he should be immune because he was president when he took those documents after the White House. The Justice Department says it's a frivolous argument. And while he has appealed questions about presidential immunity in his other case involving January 6, this is so frivolous in this Mar-A-Lago case that he shouldn't be able to stop the clock if he continues to appeal questions about presidential immunity in this case Mar-A-Lago. Everyone should go to trial. That is the position of the Department of Justice. But we'll see everyone in court next Thursday to start discussing some of these things in a little more detail with Judge Canon.

Interesting. It's great to see you, Caitlin. Thank you for bringing it all to us.