President Donald Trump launched urgent legal action to recover the $5.8 million in defamation judgment writer E. Jean Carroll won against him. Trump argued her decision to invest the funds in a retirement account rather than keep them in a court-controlled account makes the money "irretrievable." A 2023 jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a 1996 department store dressing room and defaming her publicly, according to PBS. The Supreme Court declined Trump's appeal on June 29, and Carroll collected the full $5.8 million by July 14, according to court records, PBS reported. They also noted Judge Lewis Kaplan previously stated Trump "has been stalling this case for years."