E. Jean Carroll v. Trump. Where’s the proof? Here.
This is the page to send when someone asks. No meme, no adjectives — just what juries found, what courts did, and what got paid, each line linked to its source.
Two juries. One paid verdict, final at the Supreme Court. One more on appeal. These are outcomes, not accusations — the difference between a post and a record.
A jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation
A Manhattan federal jury (Carroll II) found Donald Trump liable for the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll and for defamation, awarding about $5 million.
A separate jury awarded $83.3 million for defamation
In the earlier-filed defamation case (Carroll I), a second jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million. Status: on appeal — a federal appeals court upheld it, and Trump has sought Supreme Court review, so this one is not yet final. (PBS)
The Supreme Court declined his appeal of the 2023 verdict
The Supreme Court refused to hear Trump’s challenge to the sexual-abuse-and-defamation verdict — leaving it standing and final. (CNN) (SCOTUSblog)
He paid ~$5.6 million
After trying to delay, Trump paid Carroll $5,625,005.48 (the verdict plus interest). The check cleared. (CNBC)
The one word to get right (0g). The meme version usually says “raped.” The adjudicated word is “sexual abuse” — the jury did not find “rape” under New York’s narrow legal definition. But Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote afterward that this finding did not mean Trump was innocent of what most people commonly mean by the word. So say it precisely and you can’t be waved off: a jury found him liable for sexual abuse; the judge said that isn’t a finding of innocence on rape as ordinarily understood. Precision is what makes a receipt un-dismissable.
A post is something you feel. A verdict is something a jury did, twice. Send the verdict.
A machine can generate outrage in a second. Only a human reads the verdict and sends the receipt instead. ;