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BREAKING🚨 The Supreme Court just refused to throw out the jury’s finding that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll — the $5 million verdict stands, and he can’t appeal it again.
BREAKING🚨 The Supreme Court just refused to throw out the jury’s finding that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll — the $5 million verdict stands, and he can’t appeal it again.
The justices declined to take the case in a brief, unexplained order. No dissents listed. No rationale. They simply left in place a 2023 jury’s verdict that Trump sexually abused Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, then defamed her decades later when she went public.
This was Trump’s last shot at the lower verdict, and his own lawyers told the court exactly what it would mean to lose. In a January filing, they argued it was “deeply damaging to the fabric of our republic” for a sitting president to keep “fighting against decades-old, false allegations,” and that “this mistreatment of a President cannot be allowed to stand.”
The court let it stand anyway.
Trump’s team had spent months trying to bury the evidence the jury heard. They complained that the trial judge allowed the “Access Hollywood” tape, where Trump bragged about grabbing women. They objected to testimony from two other women — Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff — who said Trump had assaulted them too. A federal appeals court already ruled that evidence was properly admitted, and that even without it, the verdict held.
And the $5 million was always the smaller number. A second jury, in the case that actually went to trial after this one, hit Trump with an $83.3 million defamation judgment. With interest, he now owes Carroll more than $100 million.
The appeal had sat at the Supreme Court for months — set for the justices’ private discussion, then rescheduled, again and again, with no word on why. Monday, the silence ended with a denial.
Carroll’s lawyer said the decision affirms “once and for all” what a unanimous jury concluded. Trump’s attorneys say they’ll keep fighting the $83 million award.
A jury said he did it. An appeals court agreed.
Now the highest court in the country has closed the door. A man who sexually abused a woman in a dressing room sits in the Oval Office, and his bill is now DUE.
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