Move follows supreme court refusal to hear Trump’s appeal of civil case verdict in sexual abuse and defamation case
The New York journalist E Jean Carroll asked a judge on Tuesday to mandate that Donald Trump pay her the $5m she is owed from a jury verdict that found the US president liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and defaming her after she publicly described in 2019 being attacked by him in a city department store.
Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in a federal court in Manhattan one day after the US supreme court refused to hear Trump’s appeal of the civil case verdict in 2023.
The author and advice columnist argues in the filing that Trump is unjustly trying to delay even further releasing the funds to her, after he has made repeated challenges to the civil jury’s decision.
For a guy that has gained billions from bilking his donors with crypto schemes since taking office, he is a penny miser. Just pay the money and be done with it.
It’s no surprise though, he was one of 26 wealthy people who cashed in a $1.11 cheque, one of 13 wealthy people to cash in a 64 cent cheque and one of two people to cash a 13 cent cheque back when Spy magazine ran a prank to see how penny pinching rich people were.
The money should be held by the court in an appeal bond. Hopefully she doesn’t have to try to extract it from Trump directly.
