The New Republic72%
Trump Tries to Ignore Supreme Court on E. Jean Carroll 9%
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling62%
7/1/2026, 1:30:35 PM
Topics: Legal Battles, Presidential Conduct
Keywords: Donald Trump, E Jean Carroll, Supreme Court, Defamation, Sexual Assault, Lawsuit, Damages, Interest
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Negativity Bias, and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 15.9% saturation with 54 hits. Analysis detected 312 faulty-reasoning hits from 340 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 26% and a BS Rank of 9% (19,927 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 91.00% of the article peer group.
Donald Trump is still trying to stiff E.
Jean Carroll, according to the columnist’s attorney.
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.
In a separate filing Tuesday, Kaplan asked a judge to implement an expedited payment schedule for the sum that Trump owes Carroll.
She referred to a June 2023 filing in which both parties agreed that Carroll could collect if the Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
Kaplan added that, by this point, the $5 million sum had accrued an additional $779,783 in interest, raising Trump’s initial debt to nearly $5.8 million.
Nonetheless, Trump has continued to make a target out of Carroll.
In May, the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into the writer, probing whether Carroll committed perjury in her previous cases against Trump.
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