For Trump, a Blizzard of Courtroom Motion Is Simply One other Monday

For anybody however Donald J. Trump, Monday’s authorized docket would have induced dizziness.

Within the morning, a lawyer for the author E. Jean Carroll steered she would possibly sue Mr. Trump for defamation for a 3rd time. By lunch, it emerged that Mr. Trump’s attorneys had mounted a last-ditch effort to delay his upcoming felony trial in Manhattan. And by night, the New York lawyer normal requested an appeals courtroom to keep up a $454 million judgment in opposition to Mr. Trump in yet one more case.

It was a flurry of authorized exercise that, in a single day, demonstrated the exceptional breadth of Mr. Trump’s authorized entanglements.

He isn’t solely standing trial this month on felony prices — making him the primary former American president to face prosecution — however can be combating three different felony circumstances and several other civil lawsuits, all at a time when he’s poised to lock up the Republican presidential nomination. Even for a person who is not any stranger to authorized woes, that is an unparalleled scenario.

Ms. Carroll’s lawyer raised the prospect of a brand new lawsuit after Mr. Trump in current days repeatedly lashed out at her, utilizing the identical sort of disparaging language that led to an $83.3 million judgment in opposition to him in January.

“The statute of limitations for defamation in most jurisdictions is between one and three years,” Roberta A. Kaplan, Ms. Carroll’s lawyer, mentioned in an announcement Monday morning. “As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client.”

In a separate courtroom submitting, Ms. Kaplan instructed the federal decide overseeing the case that she and Mr. Trump’s attorneys had reached an settlement on the small print of a proposed $91.6 million bond that Mr. Trump not too long ago posted.

The bond — offered by Federal Insurance coverage Firm, an arm of the insurance coverage big Chubb — would stop Ms. Carroll from gathering her $83.3 million judgment whereas Mr. Trump appeals the defamation verdict. The bond is increased than the judgment as a result of the previous president can be accountable for curiosity.

The decide, Lewis A. Kaplan, who just isn’t associated to Ms. Kaplan, should nonetheless approve the proposed bond, which he may do as early as this week.

The race to safe the bond got here as Mr. Trump was on the clock to acquire a bond for an additional large judgment in a civil fraud case introduced by the New York lawyer normal, Letitia James. In that case, Mr. Trump should publish an almost half-billion-dollar bond by March 25, or the lawyer normal’s workplace can start seizing his property whereas he appeals.

Mr. Trump, who was discovered liable final month for fraudulently inflating his web price, has requested an appeals courtroom to pause the $454 million judgment whereas he mounts an attraction. However on Monday, Ms. James urged the courtroom to disclaim his request, arguing that Mr. Trump’s attraction was “exceedingly unlikely to succeed on the merits.”

Mr. Trump lack the money to give you each bonds without delay, putting him in monetary peril except the appeals courtroom grants him a reprieve.

Though the previous president boasts of his billions, his web price is derived largely from the worth of his actual property. He has greater than $350 million in money, a current New York Instances evaluation discovered, far in need of what he must get hold of bonds in each circumstances.

An attraction bond is a promise from the corporate that gives it to cowl a judgment if a defendant — on this case, Mr. Trump — loses an attraction and fails to pay. In trade, Mr. Trump should pay the corporate a premium and pledge collateral, together with as a lot money as doable.

Mr. Trump has twice attacked Ms. Carroll in current days, utilizing the kind of language that has led to 2 defamation findings in opposition to him, most not too long ago the jury’s $83.3 million award in January.

On Saturday night at a rally in Rome, Ga., Mr. Trump complained bitterly concerning the bond he needed to publish, insisted Ms. Carroll’s accusations have been false and mentioned that she was “not a believable person.”

Mr. Trump doubled down on these remarks Monday morning throughout a phone interview with CNBC, mocking Ms. Carroll as “Ms. Bergdorf Goodman,” a reference to the luxurious division retailer in Manhattan the place she mentioned Mr. Trump raped her within the mid-Nineties. In an earlier trial final 12 months, a federal civil jury discovered Mr. Trump chargeable for sexually abusing Ms. Carroll there and defaming her years later.

Within the CNBC interview, Mr. Trump referred to as the choices in opposition to him “ridiculous,” with out elaboration.

“I got charged — I was given a false accusation and had to post a $91 million bond on a false accusation,” mentioned Mr. Trump, who was not actually charged criminally within the case.

Within the Manhattan felony case that’s set to go to trial on March 25, Mr. Trump is accused of protecting up a possible intercourse scandal throughout and after the 2016 presidential marketing campaign. That case, introduced by the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace, is the primary of Mr. Trump’s 4 felony indictments to maneuver to trial.

Together with his different felony circumstances mired within the appeals course of and different delays, it may be the one one to go to trial earlier than Election Day.

The trial in Mr. Trump’s Washington felony case, which includes accusations that he plotted to overturn the 2020 election, was initially scheduled to start final week. However the Supreme Courtroom agreed to contemplate whether or not he’s immune from prosecution on prices involving official acts he took whereas president, throwing the trial into doubt.

Mr. Trump’s attorneys have additionally made a last-ditch effort to delay the Manhattan trial. In courtroom papers made public on Monday, they argued that the decide overseeing the case ought to wait to carry the trial till after the Supreme Courtroom has dominated on the immunity situation, which can not occur till June.

“President Trump is entitled to immunity from prosecution based on evidence of official acts that he undertook during his first term in office,” his attorneys wrote.

The decide within the case, Juan M. Merchan, is unlikely to grant the request. “The issue of the state proceedings I don’t believe is for the Supreme Court,” he mentioned at a current listening to.

Mr. Trump’s request to delay the Manhattan trial was hardly his first try to play the timing of the circumstances in opposition to one another. On Monday, his attorneys additionally requested the decide overseeing the federal felony case in Florida, the place he stands accused of mishandling categorised paperwork, to offer them an additional 10 days to file a spherical of courtroom papers, citing their want to arrange for his trial in Manhattan.

Alan Feuer and Jesse McKinley contributed reporting.