NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll have urged a judge to reject former President Donald Trump’s efforts to avoid posting security to secure an $83.3 million defamation award won by the writer. Attorneys wrote in a Manhattan federal court filing Thursday that Trump was offering the equivalent of a paper napkin to promise he’d pay the award to the 80-year-old longtime advice columnist. A jury last month concluded Trump defamed Carroll in 2019 with statements he issued after she alleged in a memoir that he raped her in the dressing room of a luxury Manhattan department store in spring 1996.
