BREAKING: FINAL CAPITULATION! Trump ABANDONS his bid to claw back E. Jean Carroll’s $5.6 million payout after the court dismisses his appeal WITH PREJUDICE.
E. Jean Carroll has accomplished what practically no other person involved in litigation with Donald Trump has ever been able to do: finally get him to give up on fighting the court’s judgment.
After years of stalling, appealing, and demanding the impossible, Trump just quietly dropped his final legal fight against the $5.6 million he owes Carroll, and this time, he can never bring it back.
Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning the case is over for good, according to a September 25th order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.
He also abandoned his bizarre demand that Carroll RETURN the money she'd already legally won. New York Daily News reporter Molly Crane-Newman called it a genuine first: "In what I believe is a first for my eyes, Trump withdraws his appeal fighting the payout of $5M in damages to E. Jean Carroll."
Let's remember exactly what this money represents. A 2023 jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s and for defaming her afterward, awarding her $5 million.
After the Supreme Court refused to even hear Trump's appeal back in June, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the money finally released in July, delivering one of the more satisfying judicial smackdowns in recent memory: "In the last analysis, defendant has been stalling this case for years. It is time for him to 'do equity' and pay the judgment."
Trump's team, naturally, still couldn't resist framing this as victimhood, releasing a statement calling it part of "Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes," even as they were simultaneously agreeing to permanently drop the fight. Trump's lawyers had already sent $5,625,005.48, judgment plus interest, straight to Carroll's legal team back in July.
Trump kept trying anyway, asking the appeals court in July to either block the payout entirely or force Carroll to give the money back, arguing she'd publicly stated her intent to donate it and had even started a foundation to distribute the funds. The court finally forced his hand, ordering him earlier this month to declare whether his motion was moot. He folded a week before that deadline.
Of course, this isn't fully over. Trump is still separately asking the Supreme Court to take up his appeal of a much larger $83.3 million defamation verdict from a different jury, a request the justices are expected to consider this fall.
But for now, on this particular case, after years of delay tactics and legal gymnastics, Trump finally did something that must have had him stewing in anger and denial: he simply paid what he owed.
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@SenJohnKennedy Give it up, Fake Foghorn Leghorn. He's smarter than you are, more accomplished than you are, better educated than you are, and is closer to the rule of law than you are
Meet MAGAt repeat loser Riley Gaines. A federal judge completely dismissed her high-profile Title IX lawsuit against the NCAA on Monday.
After tying for 5th place against trans swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022, Gaines launched a lucrative career in anti-trans grievance politics. She has spent years grifting as a professional pundit and paid spokesperson for anti-LGBTQ+ groups, monetizing her swimming defeat into a full-time culture war stunt.
U.S. District Judge Tiffany R. Johnson officially shut it down, ruling that the NCAA isn't subject to Title IX in this case because there's zero evidence they receive federal funding. The judge even had to include a chart to explain how government funding works to Gaines' team. Another performative grift defeated in court.
El momento en el que el gran Justin Verlander se da cuenta de que la encargada de ir a sacarlo del montículo por última vez en su carrera es su hija.
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I did fact check and it’s true! ✅ Juan Orlando Hernández, former President of Honduras, was arrested in February 2022, convicted in March 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison. That was until Trump pardoned him in December of 2025. 🤬
Gov. Andy Beshear: "I tell you what, JD Vance doesn't have to call on the states to do it. The federal government can do it. There is a federal gas tax. They control the House. They control the Senate."
Yes, Kaitlan did the job.💯💥
You get 1 or 2 shouted lines.
She used them on a thing that matters: the #IranWar.
A clean question.
The second part is why it landed.
Trump tried to make the story her presence.
"The UN let us in" neatly exposed the limits of his authority.🤓
Every time he tries to insult her, she makes him look twice as foolish without even being rude.
She just keeps doing her job - which makes it painfully obvious he isn't doing his.
She's out of his league - and he can't afford to let her keep putting that on tape.
Sec of War Pete Hegseth announces that he's teaming up with Jake and Logan Paul and together they will assemble to become the new Ambiguously Gay Trio.
This woman is reciting Donald Trump’s words on his new vaccine recommendations verbatim. This remains the clearest way to illustrate just how far gone he is mentally. This is terrifying.
Way to go, President Trump!! Getting Greenland and Denmark to agree to the deal that we signed with them in April 1951 was a stroke of diplomatic strategery bar none. #Greenland
Q: You're speaking to the United Nations next week. What is your message?
TRUMP: Well, last year my teleprompter operator was banned from the room. So I was standing there without a teleprompter. Isn't it nice?
Q: But what's your message?
TRUMP: Do you remember that? They turned off the escalator
Meet MAGAt Scott DesJarlais—the "100% pro-life" GOP Congressman representing Tennessee's 4th district, with a heavy dose of "rules for thee, but not for me."
While championing strict anti-abortion laws for everyone else, court records and audio logs proved he pressured his mistress to get an abortion and mutually agreed to two more with his ex-wife. Yes, that’s three abortions for the ultimate family-values conservative.
But wait, it gets better: the mistress was actually his active medical patient. The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners had to formally reprimand him for unprofessional conduct because apparently, "doctor-patient boundaries" are just a suggestion.
Good to know that a lifetime anti-abortion voting record magically washes away three personal abortions. Hypocrisy at its absolute finest.