{"id":33761,"date":"2026-07-09T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33761"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:51:41","slug":"happy-payout-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33761","title":{"rendered":"Happy Payout Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>...to those who celebrate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The writer <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/e-jean-carroll\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">E. Jean Carroll<\/a><\/span> can collect $5.8 million held in escrow since a jury found that President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump\u2019s lawyers immediately appealed but were denied an emergency order to block the payment from being made.<\/p>\n<p>Trump deposited the money in an account shortly after a jury ruled against him in 2023. The <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-supreme-court-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-1a50d1e9e1d12898e78e0803c4627771\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">U.S. Supreme Court<\/a><\/span> recently let the civil verdict stand, clearing the way for Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to release the money. The initial $5 million award has grown with interest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-defamation-fe911fa64d58b03b4d96a628a5cdccb0\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-defamation-fe911fa64d58b03b4d96a628a5cdccb0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>...to those who celebrate. The writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump\u2019s lawyers immediately appealed but were denied an emergency order to block the payment from being made. Trump deposited the money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33762,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33761\/revisions\/33762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}