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President Donald Trump’s niece has told him to “pay up.” Her message follows the US Supreme Court’s refusal to hear his appeal in E. Jean Carroll’s case. The court’s decision closes Trump’s last legal avenue to overturn a 2023 jury verdict. The verdict ordered him to pay Carroll $5 million in damages.
Mary Trump calls out Donald Trump after Carroll case decision
The jury had found that Donald Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s and later branded her allegations a hoax on social media. Donald’s niece, Mary Trump, commented after the ruling. A longtime critic of her uncle, she took to X (formerly Twitter) to celebrate Carroll’s win and demand he settle the debt.
“At last! @ejeancarroll just kicked Donald’s a– once and for all. What a legend she is! Time to pay up, Donald,” Mary wrote on X. The Supreme Court denied Donald’s petition without comment on June 29, grouping the case among several others it declined to review. As is customary, the court did not explain its refusal.
The president had denied the allegations throughout the proceedings. He repeatedly argued that the trial judge wrongly allowed evidence that swayed the jury against him. This included the 2005 Access Hollywood tape in which he was heard discussing groping and kissing women. A federal appeals court rejected those arguments earlier, ruling that a new trial was not warranted. Donald then escalated the matter to the Supreme Court, which has now declined to intervene.
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said the Supreme Court’s decision “affirms once and for all the jury’s unanimous verdict that President Donald J Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E Jean Carroll.” She added that his “multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today’s ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions.”
The president responded with a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, vowing to keep fighting what he called the “Weaponization and Lawfare Case”.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on Mandatory.