President Donald Trump was formally ordered by the court to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages after a Manhattan federal jury found him liable for battery and defamation.
That infamous verdict was handed down in 2023, and Trump, unsurprisingly, has yet to fork out so much as a dime to his victim. Now his excuses are becoming increasingly pathetic, desperate, and frankly ridiculous.
Ever since Trump lost his case to Carroll, who accused the now-president of sexually assaulting and raping her in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-90s, he has fought tooth and nail to overturn the jury’s decision in the civil case and avoid paying what he legally owes, to no avail.
Now, CNBC reports that Trump’s legal team has dropped a new round of excuses as to why he has yet to pay out the $5 million he owes to Carroll.
In the newest late-night court filing, the president’s attorneys made two separate, but equally ridiculous arguments in an attempt to excuse their client’s failure to follow the order handed down to him.
CNBC summarized Trump’s first argument:
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.