"Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, wrote in a court filing Tuesday that Trump’s legal representative had called her the day prior asking for another delay to the $5 million sum Trump owes the writer. Later Monday, Kaplan said she informed Trump’s team that 'Carroll does not consent,' and asked whether Trump would comply with the immediate disbursement of funds.
Carroll has a long and unfortunate history with the president. Trump was found liable by a jury in May 2023 for having sexually assaulted Carroll in the mid-1990s, for which she was awarded $5 million in damages.
He subsequently lost his defamation case against her the following January, when a judge ruled that Trump had continued to defame the advice columnist by denying the assault on the basis that she wasn’t his 'type,' and by accusing her of making up the allegations against him for the benefit of her book. A jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in that case.
But Carroll hasn’t yet seen a dime from either case. In May, a federal appeals court allowed Trump to continue staving off his payments until the Supreme Court decided whether or not to pick up the case. The court made their decision Monday, rejecting Trump’s challenge and allowing the verdict to stand." (our emphasis)
Laughably, the delusional MF is now asking the Supreme Court to revisit its rejection of his meritless case, ironically keeping the story in the news that much longer.
The MF has a long history of manipulating courts to avoid payments of debt as a corrupt real estate developer who filed bogus claims against contractors to get them to settle for far less than what he owed them for their work. That won't work this time, and he's also got that $83.3 million defamation judgement hanging over his head pending appeal, which he's also very likely to lose.
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