'The status quo must remain': Trump says Supreme Court's denial of his appeal in E. Jean Carroll case 'has not' really happened yet in bid to stave off multimillion-dollar payment

President Donald Trump is imploring a national tribunal not to merchandise millions of dollars helium owes successful the long-running defamation lawsuit brought and won by writer E. Jean Carroll.

In a 15-page memorandum of law filed precocious Tuesday, the 45th and 47th president argued that Carroll's caller efforts to unlock and dispense a $5 cardinal enslaved posted by Trump to prosecute his appeals tally afoul of a June 2023 stipulation agreement betwixt the parties.

Earlier this month, Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan asked U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to contented an bid directing the contiguous disbursement of the indebtedness owed — positive immoderate $770,000 successful involvement — from the Court Registry Investment System (CRIS).

That petition for outgo came aft the U.S. Supreme Court declined to perceive Trump's appeal of the $5 cardinal verdict successful a precocious June orders list issued without a connection of mentation oregon ceremony.

In a memo for the plaintiff, Kaplan argued the precocious court's denial of Trump's petition for a writ of certiorari was "a last result that, arsenic the Parties agreed and this Court expressly ordered, entitles Carroll to 'collect immoderate moneys owed by Defendant to Plaintiff.'"

Not so, says Trump successful his Tuesday filing.

The latest foray into statesmanlike stonewalling marks the formalization of an statement Trump's ineligible squad already signaled to Carroll's ineligible team, arsenic Law&Crime reported past week.

Earlier, Trump's attorneys asked Carroll's lawyer if the plaintiff would consent to the defense's petition to enactment the enforcement of the defamation award. Carroll flatly declined.

Now, Trump is alerting Judge Kaplan to what the defence views arsenic the existent authorities of the yearslong entreaty process.

"President Trump's timely petition for rehearing remains pending earlier the Supreme Court," the Tuesday memo reads. "Plaintiff's petition violates the plain presumption of the parties' Stipulation and Order, and would origin President Trump irreparable harm portion not improperly disadvantaging Plaintiff successful immoderate way."

To perceive Trump archer it, Carroll's petition to disburse the funds misreads a three-pronged conception of the stipulation statement arsenic a disjunctive bid of events, wherein 1 information being met volition let the defamation verdict grant to beryllium unlocked and paid out.

Instead, Trump says, the applicable conception of the statement is simply a conjunctive bid of events — requiring each 3 applicable actions to hap earlier the tribunal tin motion disconnected connected Carroll really being paid.

In existent terms, this means Carroll tin lone entree the millions owed to her erstwhile the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issues a mandate, the Supreme Court declines the case, and the Supreme Court issues a last order, according to Trump. And, though each of those events occurred, Trump rapidly filed a petition for rehearing with the 9 justices.

Since that rehearing petition is pending, the last prong "remains a unrecorded information unless and until the Supreme Court denies rehearing, due to the fact that a assistance of rehearing would spot the lawsuit backmost earlier the Court and would necessitate a further bid successful transportation with the Appeal," according to the Trump memo.

Trump besides notes that a fourth, stand-alone conception of the statement "remains operative arsenic an option." This conception covers an lawsuit successful which the archetypal verdict is overturned successful Trump's favor.

Here's however Trump views the agreement:

Read together, Subparagraphs 8(a), 8(b), and 8(c) found a sequential model keyed to however appellate reappraisal unfolds: if reappraisal ends with the Second Circuit's mandate, Subparagraph 8(a) governs; if a timely certiorari petition is filed, and the petition and rehearing are afloat denied, Subparagraph 8(b) governs; and if certiorari is granted, it is intolerable to presently cognize whether 8(b), 8(c), oregon 10 volition go the operative provision, and frankincense Plaintiff's question indispensable beryllium denied.

"Plaintiff's question rests connected her wrongful contention that the 2nd enumerated event—'denial of a timely filed petition for writ of certiorari'—has occurred. It has not," the Trump memo goes on. "A timely petition for rehearing from the denial of certiorari is portion of the Supreme Court proceedings successful transportation with that aforesaid appeal."

Trump goes connected to reason that his preferred "framework explains wherefore nary enactment treated" the Second Circuit's July 2025 ruling "as triggering collection" nether the agreement.

"The presumption quo indispensable remain," Trump's memo goes on. "Plaintiff's presumption contradicts the plain substance and intent of a information statement designed to sphere the presumption quo during appellate review. Plaintiff faces lone impermanent delay, afloat compensable by interest, unless judgement is overturned connected appeal. That has been the presumption quo passim the appellate process successful this case, and it indispensable stay truthful pending solution of the petition for rehearing."

Adding a further wrinkle, Trump's petition for rehearing refers to different lawsuit betwixt himself and Carroll — and could precise good signifier the ground for the nation's precocious tribunal to yet reconsider.

As of July 7, however, Trump's petition for rehearing was "not accepted for filing."