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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Ayer varios medios reportaron a Fico dedicando el día (igual que lo ha hecho todos estos 4 años) a atacarme. Lo curioso es que ninguno de estos medios, ni uno solo, ni en televisión ni en radio, me abrió micrófonos para responder. La razón: la oficina de prensa de la Alcaldía de Medellín lo solicitó así. Es decir todo el despliegue de ayer estuvo asociado a compromisos comerciales. Dicho de otra forma: la Alcaldía está negociando salidas del Alcalde en medios para atacar a un ciudadano usando recursos públicos.
Esto en cualquier caso también despierta una inquietud sobre el papel de los medios que permitieron este acuerdo. Se supone que cuando un medio publica o transmite una acusación contra una persona, la práctica periodística estándar exige:
1) Buscar activamente la versión del acusado antes de publicar, no solo dejar la puerta abierta por si acaso.
2) Presentar ambas versiones en la misma pieza (o al menos ofrecer espacio equivalente en un plazo razonable), no separarlas en el tiempo o en formatos desiguales.
3) No supeditar esa cobertura a la voluntad de la fuente que ataca. Además: si la oficina de prensa de quien acusa pide que no se dé micrófono a la otra parte, y el medio lo acata, ahí se rompe la independencia editorial: el medio deja que la fuente controle no solo su propio mensaje sino también el silencio del contrario.
Ayúdenme a taguear a los medios en los que Fico salió ayer para que respondan por este mensaje. Empiezo yo @NoticiasRCN y @NoticiasCaracol
BREAKING: PANIC! Trump SCRAMBLES at the last minute to block court order exposing his tax returns and business documents in BBC lawsuit.
Donald Trump sued the BBC for $10 billion. Now that lawsuit is about to expose exactly what he doesn't want anyone to see, and he's panicking in real time.
A federal judge overseeing the case ordered Trump to hand over tax returns, ownership documents, and financial statements dating back to 2023 for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust — the entity holding roughly 400 of his business entities. Trump had 10 days to comply. He waited nine of them, then asked the BBC for a voluntary extension. When they said no, his lawyers filed an "emergency" motion just one day before the deadline, desperately trying to freeze the order entirely.
Why the sudden panic? Because Trump's OWN lawsuit created this mess. He sued the BBC over a 2024 documentary that edited his January 6th speech, claiming it damaged "the value of his brand, properties, and businesses." That's exactly the language that opened the door to full financial discovery — Judge Enjoliqué Lett ruled the trust's records were directly relevant to assessing those claimed damages.
Now, realizing what he unleashed, Trump's team is scrambling to rewrite the complaint entirely, suddenly claiming he only wants damages for "reputational harm," not financial losses — even though he's still demanding a staggering $10 billion. BBC's attorney has already pointed out the obvious contradiction: Trump built his entire political brand around his supposed business success, so you can't claim reputational damage while hiding the finances that reputation is built on.
Trump's lawyers accused the BBC of having "political motivations" for wanting his financial records public. But Trump is the one who chose to sue. He's the one who claimed financial injury. And now that a judge has simply asked him to prove it, he's desperately trying to change the rules mid-game rather than open the books.
If Trump's emergency motion fails, his trust must hand over the records or face sanctions. Trial is set for February 2027, with the BBC also seeking to depose Trump under oath.
Sometimes the lawsuit really is the trap you build for yourself, and only someone as clueless as Dementia Donnie could not foresee the outcome of his litigation.
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