Former US President Donald Trump posted a $91.6 million bond in New York federal court on Friday to allow him to appeal the verdict in a defamation lawsuit filed by author E. Jean Carroll, according to a court document seen agency France-Presse, reports Agerpres.

The bond, secured by insurance, covers a possible confirmation of the Jan. 26 conviction in which Trump was convicted in the first instance; otherwise his appeal would have been rejected.

Trump, the only Republican candidate in November’s presidential election, was also sentenced on Feb. 16 to pay $355 million in fines, plus more than $100 million in interest, in another case for financial fraud inside his empire. real estate In that trial, he offered a $100 million bond for the appeal, but a judge rejected his request late last month.

In total, Trump has legal liabilities of more than half a billion dollars, which, according to AFP, could affect his election campaign.

In January, a jury awarded the former president $83.3 million in damages against Carroll in a civil defamation suit. A former journalist for Elle magazine for the US accused him in 2019 of raping her in the 1990s and already received a five million dollar verdict in another jury trial for sexual assault in 1996. Trump later made various disparaging remarks about her. statements that were the subject of a new trial.

In addition to these, Trump is also charged with four other criminal cases, mainly for his alleged illegal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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