Trump Files Plea To Block $5 Million Payout To E. Jean Carroll [View all]

Source: CNBC

Published Wed, Jul 8 2026 6:09 AM EDT Updated 3 Hours Ago


Attorneys for President Donald Trump in a late Tuesday night court filing urged a New York federal judge not to disburse nearly $5.8 million to E. Jean Carroll to satisfy a May 2023 civil verdict holding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer. Trump’s lawyers said that money cannot be released to Carroll under an agreement unless and until the Supreme Court rejects the president’s new, long-shot bid for reconsideration of his petition that the high court take his appeal of that verdict.

The Supreme Court very rarely grants such requests after having denied an initial petition to take an appeal, as it did on June 29 in saying it would not hear Trump’s appeal.

Trump’s lawyers petitioned the Supreme Court for a rehearing of its denial, according to the new filing, which included a copy of that request, dated Monday. “Collection cannot begin while proceedings remain pending before the Supreme Court, which is currently the case,” Trump’s lawyers Josh Halpern and Michael Madaio said in the filing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

“Paragraph 8 [of the agreement] does not permit collection while the rehearing petition remains unresolved,” the attorneys wrote, referring to a stipulation by the parties to hold $5.5 million deposited by Trump with that court as security as he appealed the $5 million verdict in Carroll’s favor.

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