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Trump reported over $2 billion in income last year.
This week his lawyers went to court to claw back $5.6 million from the woman a jury found he sexually abused.
The money reached Carroll on July 9, from a court-controlled escrow — three years after a nine-person jury found him liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and defaming her when she came forward.
He fought the payment at every altitude: appeal, lost; full-court rehearing, lost; Supreme Court, declined without a single noted dissent; last-ditch stay, denied.
Judge Lewis Kaplan, ordering the payout: Trump "has been stalling this case for years… It is time for him to 'do equity' and pay the judgment."
Here’s a detail his motion hopes nobody remembers: his own lawyers signed an agreement in 2023 stating the escrow would be released the moment the Supreme Court refused the case.
It refused. He co-signed his own receipt.
Carroll's attorneys, in Monday's filing: "rather than accept the reality that he had lost, [he] has engaged in a series of maneuvers trying desperately to forestall payment… The judgment here is final, the money has already been disbursed, and Carroll is entitled to keep it."
Every fresh attack, they added, triggers a "domino effect" of harassment — "including a multitude of death threats."
And this is the small judgment; a second jury awarded her $83.3 million in 2024. She hasn't seen a dime.
As for the pattern — a federal judge is currently demanding the Kennedy Center's Trump-stacked board explain why a tarp has hidden the sign for a month since a court stripped his name off it. "Petulant defiance," per the congresswoman who sued.
Her lawyers' theory: it's there to "massage broken egos."
That’s his presidency all over.


