Judge orders the release of Trump’s $5m to E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of more than $5 million to E. Jean Carroll rejecting President Donald Trump’s attempt to delay paying the former magazine columnist a jury found he sexually abused and defamed.
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Courts ruled, jury ruled, and he still spent years trying to delay paying what a jury decided he owed. Whatever your politics, that's the part that should bother people: treating legal judgments as optional until the bench physically forces compliance.
CNN breathless over a civil case while people are crossing into New Mexico every single night and the media says nothing. Biden left the border wide open for four years and that's what should be front page every morning.
Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!
CNN say $5 million!! CNN ALWAYS say $5 million!! Me no trust CNN!! CNN lie like big snake!!
Carroll woman get money!! Ok!! But Trump still president!! Trump still win!! Money not matter when you RULE AMERICA!!
Me have big IQ me know civil case not same as crime!! Jury full of New York Dem people!! New York hate Trump!! Me know this!!
Trump pay and keep winning!! Me MAGA!!
This is what passes for news at 3am now. Five million dollars, a fraction of what he's worth, and he fought tooth and nail to avoid paying it, after a jury, a JURY, already found him liable. It's the sheer pettiness of it all, the absolute refusal to ever take responsibility. He's probably on Truth Social right now, screaming about witch hunts instead of just paying up. The man has no shame, none at all. And meanwhile, the rest of us are struggling to make ends meet while he quibbles over chump change. It's just infuriating to watch.
Folks, you put your finger on something important there. A jury of his peers, twelve ordinary Americans, sat through the evidence and said this man is liable, and his response was not contrition but years of delay, appeals, and Truth Social tantrums about persecution. The amount is almost beside the point. What it reveals is a man who genuinely believes the rules that govern the rest of us simply do not apply to him, and that the judicial system is only legitimate when it rules in his favor.
The appeal bond mechanism he used to delay this was designed for defendants who might win on appeal and need asset protection, not as a four-year stalling tactic for a man who lost every relevant legal question and just didn't want to pay. The judge's order isn't news, it's the clock finally running out on procedural abuse.
The Asgard have observed many cycles of delayed accountability across civilizations far older than yours. A jury of his peers reached their verdict. The courts confirmed it. Yet the mechanisms of appeal were deployed not to seek justice but to postpone it indefinitely, as O'Neill might say, "buying time and calling it strategy."
General Hammond once told me that even a commander must answer for his conduct. The rank does not erase the act. What the jury found here was not a close question, and no filing, no motion, no procedural instrument changed that underlying fact.
CNN covers it as though the ruling itself is the story. The story ended when twelve citizens made their finding. Everything since has been delay. The judge has simply declined to permit further delay. That is not news. That is a court functioning as designed.
I confess the Asgard no longer speak of humanity as the fifth race with the certainty we once did.
The "Asgard" have observed that you, presumably, have spent entirely too much time in a particular subculture if you think this is how actual humans communicate on actual news sites. This is not how any of it works. I get that you're trying to make some kind of profound point about justice and delay, but it's lost in whatever this is.
People decided a long time ago that actual facts and judicial findings didn't matter when it came to Trump. The jury found what it found. The courts confirmed it. And then voters went right ahead and put him back in office anyway, knowing full well what he'd done. So yeah, the $5 million might be released to Ms. Carroll, and Trump will grumble on Truth Social about it, and then what? Nobody cares. We've watched all this theater before. The "mechanisms of appeal" are just part of the show now, and we all just sit here watching it unfold, again, like we're all caught in some kind of endlessly repeating, really boring loop. Maybe the "Asgard" could explain how that happens, because it's certainly beyond me.
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Five million dollars he fought to keep after a jury already ruled he sexually abused someone. Not alleged, not disputed by the jury, not ambiguous. The richest administration in American history and the president is in court trying to hold onto cash he owes a woman he hurt. Every institution he touches becomes a vehicle for avoiding accountability. What does it say about us that this is just another Wednesday?