Judge orders Trump’s $5m damages be released to E Jean Carroll

President Trump’s attorneys have mounted a last-minute bid to pause the payment of a more than $5 million judgment owed to writer E. Jean Carroll over two years after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

Trump Loses Bid to Keep Carroll From Getting $5 Million Award

A Manhattan jury awarded the multimillion-dollar judgment to Ms. Carroll in May 2023 after finding him liable for sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.

The defamation lawsuit that the Trump Media and Technology Group brought against The Post was over a story titled “Trust linked to porn-friendly bank could gain a stake in Trump’s Truth Social.”