Carroll was awarded damages after New York jury concluded Trump sexually abused her, then defamed her after she publicly described the attack
Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay payment of a $5.8m judgment for defaming a magazine columnist whom a jury determined he sexually abused has been emphatically rejected by a federal court judge.
In a single-sentence 4 July order, US district Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the president’s request for more time to pay the civil judgment owed to E Jean Carroll, who was awarded the damages after a New York jury concluded that Trump sexually abused her in 1996 – then defamed her after she publicly described the attack in 2019.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/06/trump-denies-delay-e-jean-carroll-judgment-payment
Author : Richard Luscombe
Publish date : 2026-07-06 14:34:00
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