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Trump appeals $83M judgment and seeks return of $5.6M

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Trump ~~asks SCOTUS to overturn~~ appeals $83M ~~Carroll~~ judgment and seeks return of $5.6M

In July ~~2026~~ 2026, a New York jury ordered former President Donald Trump to pay $5.6 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for ~~sexual‑abuse~~ sexual-abuse and defamation claims; the funds were released from a ~~court‑controlled~~ court-controlled escrow on July 9. Trump’s lawyers filed an emergency injunction on July 21 to keep the money in escrow while a rehearing petition before the Supreme Court was considered. The Court declined to hear his appeal of the $5.6 million judgment on June 29, and the rehearing petition circulated on July 24. On July 28 28, the Department of Justice, on Trump’s behalf, submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the $83.3 million defamation judgment stemming from a 2024 jury finding that Trump defamed Carroll for statements made in 2019 while president. Trump’s petition argues that a 2024 Supreme Court decision expanding presidential immunity shields him from civil liability for ~~official‑act~~ official-act statements and seeks to substitute the United States as the defendant under the Westfall Act. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had previously rejected the immunity claim and upheld the award, which includes $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million in compensatory damages. Two days later, on July 30, Trump filed a motion with a federal appeals court asking that a $5.8 million award to Carroll be set aside. He contends that Carroll’s decision to invest the judgment in a retirement account, rather than a ~~court‑controlled~~ court-controlled escrow, makes the funds “irretrievable” and causes him “irreparable harm.” Carroll’s attorneys say the request is procedurally improper, note that this is the seventh appeal Trump has launched in the related cases, and accuse Trump of stalling the proceedings. On August 17, the Supreme Court denied Trump’s request to reconsider its previous refusal to hear the appeal of the $5 million verdict.

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