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.
Trump: “The new ballroom will cost $500 million…… what?... it will cost $505 million.”
Even if that happened and the $505M was allocated, he STILL wouldn’t pay
Yeah, it’s a point of pride by now. His narcissism means he’ll resent being ordered to do it, and will pull every tactic he can to deny and delay. He can easily scrounge up the money, but he doesn’t want to. So he’ll delay until the courts start putting liens on his assets. And even then, the lien would only take effect once he sells the affected asset, so he could just refuse to ever sell it.
They should garnish his Presidential salary just for the principle of it. I bet that would irk him more than the $$.