A federal judge pried loose the $5.8 million Donald Trump has owed E. Jean Carroll for three years and told him it’s time to pay.
Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that Trump “has been stalling this case for years.” A unanimous jury found he sexually abused and defamed Carroll, every appeal failed, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case without a single dissent. Carroll is 82. Kaplan ordered the money out of escrow and wrote that it’s time for Trump to “do equity.”
The courts weren’t done telling him to accept their decisions today. An appeals court refused for the second time to put his name back on the Kennedy Center, where he had placed it without authorization. A tarp has covered the sign for 25 days, and the judge who ordered the name removed is demanding to know why it’s still up.
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