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Trump Suffers Third E. Jean Carroll Loss in 24 Hours 31%
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling58%
7/9/2026, 2:44:30 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Fundamental Attribution Error as the most egregious example at 25.1% saturation with 123 hits. Analysis detected 749 faulty-reasoning hits from 491 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 40.6% and a BS Rank of 31% (14,272 of 20,498 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 69.60% of the article peer group.
Trump Suffers Third E.
Jean Carroll Loss in 24 Hours
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied Donald Trump's emergency motion to temporarily suspend the court-ordered payment to E.
Jean Carroll, who was found civilly liable for sexually assaulting her in 1995.
Despite Trump's legal team's efforts to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, the nation's highest judiciary ultimately rejected the request, leading to the release of $5 million in court-held funds to Carroll.
Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered Trump to pay Carroll, stating that it was time for him to "do equity" and settle the judgment, as Trump had been stalling the case for years.
Donald Trump is absolutely, finally, paying E.
Jean Carroll.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied the president's emergency motion to temporarily suspend the court-ordered payment late Wednesday.
The decision came shortly after Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the release of $5 million in court-held funds to the beleaguered columnist, more than three years after Trump was found civilly liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in a department store in late 1995.
The last-minute stay was a Hail Mary thrown by Trump's legal team, who had tried to appeal the case to the Supreme Court earlier this week.
But the nation's highest judiciary ultimately rejected the request on Tuesday.
Despite the high court's decision, Trump's legal team wrote to Kaplan asking him not to release the funds, claiming that the president's Supreme Court petition for a new hearing was still pending.
By Wednesday morning, the SCOTUS docket had been updated to reflect that it was anticipating a corrected petition from the president's team.
But hours later, it appeared that Kaplan had gone ahead and ordered the release of the funds to Carroll despite Trump's pending filing, anyway.
In a six-page memorandum penned Wednesday, Kaplan noted that Trump "has been stalling this case for years."
"It is time for him to 'do equity' and pay the judgment," Kaplan ordered.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals clearly agreed.
Carroll has a long and grim history with the president.
After the 2023 civil case, Trump tried and failed to sue Carroll for defamation.
Kaplan later ruled that Trump had continued to defame the advice columnist by denying the rape on the basis that she wasn't his "type," and by accusing her of making up the sexual assault allegations against him for the benefit of her book.
A jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in that case, though Carroll has not yet seen any proceeds from that decision, either.
Late last month, Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan (no relation to the New York–based judge) asked a judge to implement an expedited payment schedule for the sum that Trump owes Carroll, noting that by this point, the president owes Carroll interest on the original amount.
"It is time for this case to come to an end," Carroll's attorney wrote in a Tuesday legal filing.
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