Trump pays E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million in damages
Roughly three years after his conviction for sexual abuse and defamation, US President Trump has paid the compensation to author E. Jean Carroll. He had previously tried to delay the payment via the Supreme Court.
All sources confirm the core: Trump has paid the multimillion-dollar compensation to E. Jean Carroll, roughly three years after the guilty verdict for sexual abuse and defamation. There are slight discrepancies over the sum: Germany's Die Zeit, Deutschlandfunk, Handelsblatt and the BBC cite $5.6 million or $5 million, while the US agency AP puts it at $5.8 million, likely pointing to accrued interest. The public broadcaster BBC emphasizes that Trump wanted to delay the payment and sought to have the Supreme Court overturn the ruling. The liberal Die Zeit and Deutschlandfunk simply frame it as belated satisfaction for the victim. The pro-market Handelsblatt embeds the payment in a news block of further legal setbacks for Trump. Politically charged pushback from Trump-friendly media is absent from the raw reports.