Update July 8 at 11:46 am PT:
A federal judge has ordered President Trump to pay $5 million, plus interest, to E. Jean Carroll, shooting down his effort to prevent the payment.
Original story below:
President Trump’s attorneys have filed a last-minute effort to pause a more than $5 million payment to E. Jean Carroll.
In a filing to District Judge Lewis Kaplan, lawyers Josh Halpern and Michael Madaio wrote, “Plaintiff asks this Court to release $5,779,783 from the Court’s accounts, while President Trump’s timely petition for rehearing remains pending before the Supreme Court.”
“Plaintiff’s request violates the plain terms of the parties’ Stipulation and Order, and would cause President Trump irreparable harm while not improperly disadvantaging Plaintiff in any way,” the filing reads, adding that “collection cannot begin while proceedings remain pending before the Supreme Court, which is currently the case.”
“Plaintiff faces only temporary delay, fully compensable by interest, unless judgment is overturned on appeal. That has been the status quo throughout the appellate process in this case, and it must remain so pending resolution of the petition for rehearing,” the lawyers explain. “President Trump, however, faces unrecoverable loss: Plaintiff has repeatedly stated that she intends to give away all funds that she collects from him, and once those funds are distributed to third parties, they likely cannot be recovered.”
Carroll’s attorneys previously filed documents demanding President Donald Trump pay a $5 million civil jury verdict. “To date, Carroll has agreed to each of Defendant’s many requests to delay the payment he owes her,” attorneys Roberta Kaplan, D. Brandon Trice, and Maximilian T. Crema wrote. “Given the extraordinary lengths he has taken to avoid such payments and that each of those efforts has been denied in full, that cooperation ends today. It is time for him to pay Carroll.”
President Trump has called the case “Weaponization and Lawfare.”
“This Case is really against the United States of America, and all it stands for, and should never be allowed to happen to another President, or Candidate to be!” he wrote on Truth Social last month. “New York State created a Law, for an instant speck of time, going back many decades, in order to wrongfully ‘nab’ me. It was tailormade, and this Injustice cannot be allowed to stand!”
