E. Jean Carroll's lawyer promised they'll make Trump pay up the $5 million she's owed — but wouldn't say how
- E. Jean Carroll's lawyer promised Donald Trump will pay up the $5 million in damages he owes.
- A jury on Tuesday found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in 1996.
Roberta Kaplan isn't concerned about her client, E. Jean Carroll, getting the $5 million in damages a Manhattan jury ordered Donald Trump to pay her after they found him liable of sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s.
"I promise you that we will collect those damages against the former President," Kaplan told Savannah Guthrie on the "Today" show Wednesday.
But Kaplan declined to comment on how she'll get the funds when asked by Insider later Wednesday.
Trump's lawyer in the case, Joe Tacopina, maintained that they plan to appeal the case and won't have to pay Carroll anything quite yet.
"There is this little thing called the appeal. That will get in the way," Tacopina said.
A Manhattan jury on Tuesday found the former president liable of sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996.
The jury also found that Trump defamed her by accusing her of lying about the abuse, which she told publicly in an article for New York Magazine in 2019.
Jurors took two-and-a-half hours to come to their decision, which Kaplan said was "lightning speed." The jury awarded Carroll $5 million total in damages.