Well, well, well. Just when you thought the E. Jean Carroll saga had finally limped off into the sunset, the Justice Department and President Trump are asking the actual Supreme Court, the federal one, not whatever activist bench they used last time, to take a long, hard look at that $83 million defamation jackpot and toss it in the trash where it belongs.
And thank God.
The $5 Million One Is Done. The $83 Million One Still Needs a Reality Check.
This whole thing has been a masterclass in how far the system will bend when the right people decide a “believe all women” narrative is more important than basic evidence, timelines, or common sense.
Quick refresher for the people who have lives:
- One jury already handed Carroll $5 million for the sexual-abuse claim and some post-presidency comments. That one is paid and done. The Supreme Court already told Trump “no” on appealing it.
- The bigger, uglier $83 million award is the one still hanging. That one is based purely on things Trump said while he was President in 2019 when he denied knowing her and pointed out the obvious: this woman came forward decades later in a book, and the timing was… convenient.
Now Trump and the DOJ are arguing that a sitting (and former) president shouldn’t be personally bankrupted for answering questions about an accusation that was leveled against him while he was in office. They’re invoking presidential immunity and the Westfall Act.
In plain English: you don’t get to sue the President into the poorhouse for doing his job and defending himself against a decades-old claim.
She Couldn’t Remember the Year. The Jury Still Wrote Her a Check.
And can we just say the quiet part out loud for a second?
This case should never have gotten this far.
Never ever forget what this lunatic, E Jean Carroll, said on CNN. Anderson Cooper was clearly shocked and quickly went to commercial.
She should be in prison. pic.twitter.com/JVOArJiI3l
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) May 31, 2026
Carroll couldn’t nail down the year. She has admitted she doesn’t remember exactly when this supposed Bergdorf Goodman dressing-room attack happened. She went public more than twenty years later in a memoir. She has written and spoken in ways that make a lot of normal people raise an eyebrow — including past comments that treated the idea of rape with a weird, almost theatrical lightness that does not scream “traumatized victim.” Yet a New York jury looked at that and decided Trump owed her the GDP of a small country because he said he didn’t know her and she wasn’t his type.
We’re supposed to pretend that’s justice.
First Time in History. Last Chance for Common Sense.
The Second Circuit already did the usual contortions to keep the judgment alive. Now the real Supreme Court gets a chance to decide whether a president can be held personally liable for statements made from the White House about an accusation that directly attacked his fitness for office. Trump’s lawyers put it bluntly: this is the first time in American history a court has imposed this kind of damages on a president for conduct in office. That alone should make the justices sit up.
I’m rooting for them to take the case and end it. Not because I’m against women coming forward. Because I’m against turning the justice system into a political weapon and a cash register for the loudest, most convenient story.
If the Supreme Court has any interest in keeping the presidency from becoming a lifetime civil liability lottery, this is the one they need to hear and dismiss.
Side eye fully engaged.
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