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Trump Seeks Extension on $5.8 M Judgment Amid Kaplan Complaint

7/4/2026

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Trump Seeks Extension

A conservative nonprofit filed complaint with New York attorney grievance committee accusing Roberta Kaplan of failing to correct false testimony.
U.S. President Donald Trump filed a motion asking the court for additional time to pay the $5.8 million judgment.
Trump’s lawyers said they may seek Supreme Court review of the appeal.
Roberta Kaplan called the payment extension request ‘yet another play for time.’

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Trump Delays Payment

Trump’s lawyers asked E. Jean Carroll’s counsel to delay the payment-disbursement request after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
U.S. President Donald Trump must pay $5 million plus $779,783 interest to E. Jean Carroll after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
Roberta Kaplan asked Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to set a seven-day deadline July 7 2026, not fourteen.
Trump denied wrongdoing and vowed to keep fighting he calls a “weaponization and lawfare” case.

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Historical Context

In 1994 Paula Jones sued President Bill Clinton, and the Supreme Court’s unanimous May 27 1997 ruling in Clinton v. Jones rejected any temporary immunity for a sitting president, allowing the $1.5 million defamation claim to proceed. That precedent now underpins the courts’ enforcement of Donald Trump’s $5.8 million civil judgment in the high-profile E. Jean Carroll case.

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Trump Seeks Extension

A conservative nonprofit filed complaint with New York attorney grievance committee accusing Roberta Kaplan of failing to correct false testimony.
U.S. President Donald Trump filed a motion asking the court for additional time to pay the $5.8 million judgment.
Trump’s lawyers said they may seek Supreme Court review of the appeal.
Roberta Kaplan called the payment extension request ‘yet another play for time.’

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