The Supreme Court refuses to hear the case triggering the payout.
Congrats to E. Jean Carroll
The Wall Street Journal reports Judge Orders Trump to Pay E. Jean Carroll $5 Million Damage Award
A New York federal judge on Wednesday ordered President Trump to pay the $5 million in damages a jury awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll after the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal of the defamation and sexual-abuse verdict.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan granted Carroll’s request on Wednesday for the damages plus interest, and Trump’s lawyers quickly notified the court that they would appeal.
In a court filing Tuesday asking the judge to hold off from distributing the funds, Trump’s lawyers said they had asked the Supreme Court to reconsider their petition. They said he faced an “unrecoverable loss” since the money likely couldn’t be recouped even if he eventually prevails.
A federal jury in Manhattan in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll and ordered him to pay $5 million in damages. Carroll, an author and former Elle magazine columnist, testified at trial that Trump had raped her in a Manhattan department store nearly 30 years ago. The jury found him liable for sexual abuse but not rape.
Trump called the verdict a disgrace and said he had never met Carroll. After the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, he said he would continue to “fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”
The case is one of two civil lawsuits filed against Trump by Carroll. During a 2024 trial, a separate federal jury ordered Trump to pay $83 million for defamatory comments he made during his first term in the White House, in which he accused Carroll of fabricating the assault to generate publicity for her book. Trump denied wrongdoing.
A federal appeals court upheld the $83 million judgment. Trump’s lawyers have said they intend to ask the Supreme Court to hear that appeal as well.
Appeal Beyond Stupid
Jack Hopkins has the details on a totally stupid appeal in his report She Waited Seven Years for a Check That Cleared in Three Hours
Today a federal judge ordered the release of $5 million…PLUS nearly $800,000 in interest…to E. Jean Carroll.
The money had been sitting in a court-controlled escrow account for three years… deposited by a man a jury of twelve found…in under three hours…had sexually abused her and then defamed her by calling her a liar. The Supreme Court declined to touch his appeal on June 29. And the money moved.
They argued collection couldn’t begin while “proceedings remain pending.” They argued he should be repaid if some future reversal materialized. They filed late Tuesday night, the classic move of a man hoping the referee’s already gone home.
And the judge looked at all of it and pointed at one thing. The agreement he signed himself.
Back in 2023, Trump’s OWN lawyers agreed…in writing, signed off by the court…that the money would be released to Carroll if the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. Paragraph 8. Their signature. Their terms.
Carroll’s lawyer put it perfectly: “This is the end of the line.” Because the line had been drawn…in ink…by the very man now standing on the wrong side of it.
Carroll went public in 2019. Do the math…that’s seven years. Seven years of being called a hoax…a con…“not my type.” Seven years of appeals…immunity fights…delays…and every procedural stall a bottomless legal budget can buy. Most people quit at year two. Most people settle for pennies at year three just to make the migraine stop. She didn’t.
Every stall costs him money…interest…and credibility…while every day that passes proves the creditor isn’t going anywhere. Eventually…the delays run out of road. They always do. The interest alone…nearly $800,000…is the toll the man paid for three years of “no.”
That’s not just her win. That’s a receipt…framed and hung on the wall…for anyone who’s ever been told the little guy can’t outlast the big one.
There’s a second verdict in the $83 million defamation case still grinding through appeals. He’ll fight that one too. He’ll file at midnight…invoke every doctrine his lawyers can dream up…and wait for everybody to lose interest.
Bet on the mousetrap. Bet on the woman who doesn’t quit.
The powerful can delay a debt. What they can’t do…is delay it forever…not when the deadline is one they signed with their own hand.
P.S. Note the one move he couldn’t make: he couldn’t say the debt wasn’t real. Twelve jurors settled that in under three hours…the appeals court affirmed it…and the Supreme Court declined to disturb it; three justices he appointed himself among them…not one noted dissent. When even the referees you hand-picked…won’t throw the flag, the game is over. The only question left was the date on the check. She just cashed the answer.
Questions of the Day
Just how stupid is an appeal when you agree in writing to pay off if the Supreme Court refuses the case?
And how stupid was it in the first place to think think the Supreme Court would even take the case.
Finally, instead conceding and paying out, Trump stretched this case out, losing another $800,000 in the process.
In doing so, Trump resurfaced the case just in time for the election.
And how stupid is that?
Congrats again to E. Jean Carroll for a hand well played.
Musical Tribute
It is idiotic to believe with Trump’s infidelity, grabbing em by the pussy comments, and everything in the Epsetin files that Trump is innocent here.
Trump is protecting himself or we would have Epstein files released.
Totally ridiculous to defend Trump here. And I did defend Trump on absurd tax evasion charges etc.
You have to have TDS here to strongly defend Trump.
No, you just have to understand that the purported victim had zero evidence and million$ of reasons to lie and that a Manhattan jury would have convicted Trump of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby. Trump is a cad and the Epstein files almost certainly implicate him in crimes. That doesn’t mean he was guilty of doing anything to this particular accuser.
Trump is proof “Rock Bottom has a basement!”
Stupider and stupider… there is no bottom.
I’m not a Trump fan but she is an absolute nut job. I saw her do an interview on CNN with Anderson Cooper on 2 occasions, on both occasions Anderson Cooper couldn’t cut to commercial fast enough. The one occasion she was with her lawyer, they had just won the huge judgement, she starts smiling and blabbering to Cooper, “let’s go shopping” she couldn’t start spending that money fast enough. She never came across even slightly credible.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRDl8DXRC3Q
Hey Mike I’d love to hear your thoughts on what appears to be taxpayer funded subsidies on gas.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-freedom-fuel-stations-trump-gas-price-20260707.html
A bunch of gas stations are mysteriously rebranded with AI art and are handing out gas at a ~40 cent loss while Trump brags. El Presidente much?
paywalled
Trump: Iran just called. They want to make a deal very badly.
Reporter: If they want to make a deal, why did they attack commercial vessels?
Trump: Because… they’re sort of crazy. But they want to make a deal badly.
Straight out of a Zucker Brother’s comedy movie (i.e. Airplane, Naked Gun, etc…)
He reportedly called it the Islamic Republic of Japan.
Some unspecific time 20 to 30 years ago in a dressing room at Bergdorf’s Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll. It must have been when they were open but a busy store in New York had 1) No Witnesses 2) No Camara Footage 3) No Police Reports 4) No Physical Exams or evidence 5) Allegations like a Law-and-Order TV episode. 6) NY law changed and Trump sued under the Adult Survivors act on Day 1. 7) Funded by Reid Hoffman (Democratic Operative All Over Epstein files) 8) Carroll perjured herself about Hoffman funding and judge ruled immaterial.9) The dress she was wearing did not exist because the pattern and design were not created during the wide-ranging unspecified time.
All of this from a woman who is clearly about as mentally capable as Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell. She paints her trees blue and has a cat named Vagina. Go watch the after-trial TV interviews. Even the jury could not find Trump guilty on the first and major charge. They had to use the secondary charge.
The democrats used this woman and changed the law so they can sue. A New York jury with a bias judge and rigged trial made this happen.
And we all wonder why ambulance chasing attorneys vote overwhelming Democratic. This is exactly the reason the founders of the country designed the president to only be responsible to the Senate through the house. Shame on anyone who thinks this is justice because they will do it to you.
That rape cost him a lot, but he should have gone to prison for it. These kind of people belong behind bars.
As i said above. He wont personally pay, people who buy his crypto are the ones who will. Or others who need a pardon etc.
So she will be responsible for pardons given to criminals.
You saying he wouldn’t pardon them if he didn’t have to pay her?
He made 2 billion off crypto alone last year. Nothing will ever be enough. He will always take more.
That he applauds anything this vile woman has done in regards to this lawsuit is definitive proof that Mish has lost his fucking marbles.
My God….
What kind of trash defends a rapist…
Go f yourself. That woman is a lying pos.You morons believe anything that is anti trump. how pathetic . No fucking common sense. I can’t believe how pathetic this blog has become.
This kinda trash 😂
“She’s a lying POS?” Really, how? Actually she’s been very principaled and just jumped through the hoops that Trump always does to beat creditors.
Did she have her “hotels and casino businesses of his [Trump’s] have declared bankruptcy six times between 1991 and 2009 due to its inability to meet required payments and to re-negotiate debt with banks, owners of stock and bonds and various small businesses (unsecured creditors).
How many times does Trump have to be accused of mistreatment of women before you believe it? He has cheated on three wives, two while they were pregnant. Boasted how he likes to use and abuse women, there is evidence in the Epstein files of his strong sympathies with Epstein’s style.(Just release the files) At some point something is going to stick. This is what having some moral code looks like.
The issue isn’t whether Trump is a POS. It’s that this civil judgment against him had no evidence relating to this particular accuser. StrongGnu (above) states it well – and I rarely agree with him.
Sorry, but I still think this was a bullshit case and decision. L.A. psychiatrist and New York native Dr. Carole Lieberman tells me and insists that there is absolutely no way, given the layout of the “rape store”, that Carrol’s story held water. Claims deep familiarity with the store as a long time customer. Undoubtedly this will be unpopular with the TDS posters, but I’m up to here with “I was raped 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60 years ago and I want Just-Us” stories. Trump has undoubtedly done a lot of things over the years but this one always smelled.
A psychiatrist who believes the tens of millions of completely normal people who are totally repulsed by Donald Trump – it is normal to be repulsed by an extreme sociopath – have a mental illness. She’s completely off her rocker. 100% looney.
Be honest, you’re not bothered that Trump is a rapist.
Oh fer fuck’s sake, grow up. Can we move beyond Team Red and Team Blue? How a commenter feels is beside the point. Trump may be the rapeyest of rapists. He probably is. That doesn’t mean this civil case proved anything.
Taco is getting off light. Of course, he is still seeking avenues to avoid this payment.
The fact that the SJC denied to hear it the first time around, echos a similar ruling this go around. The money has been paid already, but is in Bond Form. No way around having to pay, eventually, but it’s silly because it was already so…
Perfect, sounds like she’ll get the $5M this week.
Let’s hope she lives long enough to see the $83M too. I’m guessing that is what drumpf is hoping for, that he will outlive her and not have to pay either sum.
I believe $5 million already paid.
Another $83 million on the way.
And that seems reasonable to you? For something that never happened?
Good grief, man.
Mish has lost common sense endorsing this type of bullshit. Time for me to unsubscribe
then do it
Trust me, I wont care
Noooooo! Don’t go! We neeeeeeeed you here!
Legally speaking I do believe, that Trump was only found civilly liable for sexual abuse. That’s it.
Just the standard pussy grab.
Not unlike the grip he has upon Congress…
since they lack the balls Jean has displayed.
He’ll just fleece some more people in his crypto to pay her off including the 83 million.
Won’t cost him personally a dime.