US District Judge Lewis F. Kaplan has denied former President Donald Trump a stay in paying his eight-figure civil judgment to writer E. Jean Carroll in a Thursday ruling. This means Trump now has no other option but to immediately post the judgment bond plus interest, or simply pay the judgment outright. Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney tweeted an excerpt of Judge Kaplan’s ruling on Thursday, in which he remarked specifically on Trump’s strategy to delay and postpone accountability at every opportunity. “Mr. Trump’s current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions,” Kaplan wrote. …