President Donald Trump got away with a lot of the things he was accused of after his first presidency, including three of the four criminal indictments, and he received no prison time or other punishment for his 34 convictions in federal court in Manhattan.
However, Trump has continued to suffer legal defeats in connection with the series of lawsuits filed by E. Jean Carroll, the journalist who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Trump in the 1990s. A jury found that Trump had both sexually abused and defamed Carroll.
Now, Trump has suffered three more legal defeats in relation to the Carroll cases, all this week.
According to the New Republic, Trump has been ordered to pay a massive judgment to Carroll, among two other legal defeats.
Breaking News: A federal judge ordered that E. Jean Carroll should be paid $5 million after a jury found President Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. https://t.co/JykDW5R5qR
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 8, 2026
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“Donald Trump is absolutely, finally, paying E. Jean Carroll,” the report said. “The Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied the president’s emergency motion to temporarily suspend the court-ordered payment late Wednesday.”
There were other new defeats as well.
“The decision came shortly after Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the release of $5 million in court-held funds to the beleaguered columnist, more than three years after Trump was found civilly liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in a department store in late 1995,” TNR said. “The last-minute stay was a Hail Mary thrown by Trump’s legal team, who had tried to appeal the case to the Supreme Court earlier this week. But the nation’s highest judiciary ultimately rejected the request on Tuesday.”
Federal judge orders the release of Trump’s $5 million payment to E. Jean Carroll https://t.co/3j9Zhi6O2Q pic.twitter.com/2XvjGciv2Q
— CNN (@CNN) July 8, 2026
Kaplan, the judge, accused Trump’s side of delaying the payments.
Trump, the judge said, “has been stalling this case for years,” and “It is time for him to ‘do equity’ and pay the judgment.”
“It is time for this case to come to an end,” Carroll’s lawyer said in a filing this week.
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