Big legal blow for Trump — the US Supreme Court just shut down his attempt to overturn that $5 million defamation payout to E. Jean Carroll.

The US Supreme Court said no to President Donald Trump on Monday, refusing to hear his appeal over the $5 million verdict awarded to E. Jean Carroll, according to cbinews.tv.

Back in 2023, a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing the former Elle magazine columnist and then defaming her. The justices turned away Trump’s argument that the trial was unfair because the judge let jurors hear about other alleged past sexual misconduct.

This whole fight goes back to 2019, when Carroll dropped an excerpt from her memoir claiming Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan around 1996. Trump flat-out denied it, saying she lied — both while he was still in his first term as president in 2019, and again in 2022 when he was out of office.

Things have only heated up since. Trump’s Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into Carroll, disclosed in May, looking at whether she committed perjury in testimony from the two civil cases she won against him. That’s part of a wider pattern where several of the Republican president’s adversaries have faced similar probes.

The $5 million case specifically came from Trump’s 2022 social media post calling Carroll’s claim a "hoax" and a "con job." He even added: "This woman is not my type!" Carroll sued him in federal court in Manhattan. Jurors decided in 2023 that Trump had sexually abused and defamed her, awarding $5 million. They didn’t find that he raped her, though, as she’d alleged.

The Manhattan-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals backed that verdict in 2024. They pointed to evidence like Trump’s comments on that Access Hollywood tape from the 2016 campaign, saying it showed a "repeated, idiosyncratic pattern of conduct" that lined up with Carroll’s allegations.

Trump’s lawyers told the Supreme Court the trial judge messed up by letting in "decades-old, unverified and unrelated allegations." They argued Carroll only came forward after 20 years because she opposed Trump politically, claiming she did it "when she could maximise political injury to him and profit for herself."

Worth noting: Carroll won another lawsuit too. In 2025, the 2nd Circuit refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict from 2024, which was for defamation when Trump first denied her claims in 2019 and said she made it up to sell her book.

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