Posted on 07/08/2026 5:03:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK (AP) — The writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump’s lawyers immediately asked a court to block the payment while they appeal.
The president has already deposited the money in an account. The U.S. Supreme Court recently let the 2023 civil verdict stand, clearing the way for Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to release the money. The initial $5 million award has grown with interest.
The jury found Trump attacked Carroll in 1996 in the dressing room of a luxury Manhattan department store, and defamed her after she described it publicly in a 2019 memoir, during his first term as president. Trump called her allegations false and said “ she’s not my type ” in an interview.
Trump’s attorneys said Wednesday they would continue to appeal, and accused his political opponents of using the legal system against him. They want 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the payment. Carroll’s lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The jury had reached its verdict — in a trial that Trump did not attend — after Carroll testified that their flirtatious and friendly chance encounter at the department store turned violent. Trump insisted he never knew Carroll, now 82, a former advice columnist. He accused her of trying to sell books at his expense and of having political motives.
Carroll sued Trump after New York changed its laws to give sexual abuse survivors a fresh chance to sue over attacks that happened in the distant past.
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Not one person from the store spoke about “that’s impossible”...someone is always there.
Get rid of defamation laws.
She lied in court.
This is and always has been punishment for being elected despite the Access Hollywood tape.
Why are you allowed to harass the President with court cases while he’s trying to run the country. Just ignore the request and site working day and he can’t be prosecuted for it because he’s the President and has immunity!
And the next judge needs to order E Jean Carroll to pay $5.8M to Trump for her obstruction of justice in that case - failing to produce 2 important pieces of evidence during the discovery phase.
Yeah. Trump comes across as the kind of guy who would rape a random woman in a department store.
arrest biased judges that weaponize their position.
Not until the DOJ completes their investigation into whether she lied under oath.
She should be in prison.
Pronto.
Agreed.
Judges ought to be dragged off their arrogant bench and beaten to death for this ridiculous miscarriage of justice.
LOL, trying to scrub that image from my mind!
I keep remembering: this is the Rape is sexy person. The TDS is so advanced in these people that revealing that statement of hers simply could not push the bar for throwing out the case low enough to do what normal people would do.
Look at ANY of her writing......it is the work of someone with some serious attention deficit AND mental disarray....to put it lightly!!!!
I AM SAYING IT IS IMPOSSIBLE—_BUT I DO NOT WORK THERE.
I AM SAYING IT IS IMPOSSIBLE—_BUT I DO NOT WORK THERE.
SURE WOULD LIKE TO SEE JEAN CARROLL ON STEVE WILKOS SHOW & A LIE DETECTOR
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