Courts reject Trump's Hail Mary bids to avoid paying E. Jean CarrollCourts at every level have rebuffed Trump's efforts to block the payment. After three years, three levels of the federal courts system and countless legal filings, Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll. On Wednesday evening, a judge on the New York-based 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump’s effort to pause an order issued earlier in the day by a district judge to send the money — $5 million plus interest — to Carroll. That means Carroll, who is owed a total of $88.3 million plus interest from Trump as a result of two jury verdicts, is set to finally receive her first payment. The money is already in escrow. ... The writing was on the wall as early as last week, after the Supreme Court said it wouldn’t consider Trump’s effort to overturn the 2023 verdict. But Trump made a series of eleventh-hour attempts to forestall the payment. ... A second judgment of $83.3 million came after another trial in early 2024, in which a jury awarded Carroll for another set of remarks about her claims that a judge had found defamatory. Trump is still pursuing an appeal of that case. ... https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/09/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-5-million-00992363
