- Attorneys for Donald Trump are promising a nearly $5.8 million payout to E. Jean Carroll if the Supreme Court denies another attempt to overturn a sexual abuse verdict.
- A federal judge denied the president’s efforts to stall payments to Carroll, who was awarded a $5 million judgment in 2023 after a federal jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.
- But in a late-night filing on Tuesday, Trump's lawyers said Carroll should wait until the Supreme Court “fully” decides whether to rehear the president’s attempt to overturn the verdict; otherwise he faces an “unrecoverable loss” of millions of dollars that will cause him "irreparable harm.”
- The Supreme Court has already rejected Trump's appeal, and a recent docket entry indicates his latest filing for a rehearing has “not been accepted.”
- Separately, the Justice Department is trying to step into Trump’s case to prevent Carroll from receiving another $83 million from the president. Trump took the extraordinary step of trying to replace himself as a defendant with the U.S. government as he fights for “immunity” from having to pay her.
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