Judge orders release of $5.8M Trump owes E. Jean Carroll

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of $5.8 million to E. Jean Carroll three years after the jury awarded payment for damages caused by President Trump. 

District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Carroll should receive the funds, which were placed in an escrow account while Trump appealed a verdict that found him liable for defaming Carroll. 

During his first term in the Oval Office, Trump said Carroll’s claims that he sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan were a “con job” and “hoax.”

A jury determined his statements were defamatory and negatively impacted Carroll professionally. 

The Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal to overturn the case without an explanation or reasoning last week. 

Carroll’s attorney........

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