A Manhattan federal court judge on Wednesday ordered the release of the more than $5m Donald Trump owes E Jean Carroll following her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation trial against him. Less than an hour after the judge issued his order, Trump filed paperwork indicating he was appealing the decision.
Trump had deposited this $5m jury award, as well as 11% interest, into a court-held account some six weeks after Carroll’s courtroom victory. Judge Lewis Kaplan’s order directs the disbursement of these court controlled funds, which now total some $5.8m due to interest accrual.
Kaplan’s decision comes more than three years after Carroll bested Trump in her bombshell civil case; jurors determined that he sexually abused the former Elle writer and unlawfully impugned her reputation with false, vitriolic denials. Trump denied all wrongdoing.
The order followed the US supreme court’s 29 June decision not to review Trump’s appeal. Trump wanted the supreme court to weigh his appeal after lower courts repeatedly snubbed his fight against this verdict.
It must be noted that this was a civil case, not a criminal one. He was found civilly liable, and there was a finding of fact that he committed sexual assault in a way that anyone would colloquially call rape.
There was never anything about guilty or not guilty.
And you think the tangerine twatwaffle knows the difference?
I do not, but I’ve also seen a lot of people who are mistaken about the aforementioned facts. Since facts matter, I took the opportunity to be clear about them.
Very good point. :)