BREAKING: E Jean Carroll’s lawyers drop BOMB on Trump in court

You're watching the Legal Breakdown. Glenn, we have such a shocking update. that I couldn't believe it when I read. it. Can you explain what Donald Trump's. lawyers just requested of E. Jean. Carroll's attorneys in the aftermath of. the Supreme Court refusing to review the. $5 million judgment that she won? >> Brian, Donald Trump's lawyers had the. nerve, had the gall to ask E. Jean. Carroll's lawyers, now that the case is. dead, it's over, and Donald Trump lost, and he is to pay E. Jean Carroll $5.

million. plus interest, they just asked E. Jean. Carroll's lawyers if she would consent. to Donald Trump not paying her the $5. million. plus interest. And apparently Donald. Trump's lawyers are, you know, ruminating whether they might want to. try to file a motion to reconsider with. the Supreme Court, which is just. absolutely absurd. And the good news is. E. Jean Carroll's lawyers, including.

Roberta Kaplan, the lead lawyer, shot. back, "No, E. Jean Carroll does not. consent. It is time to pay up." And. interestingly, Brian, there's actually a. court filing back in June of 2023. where the parties agreed, Trump's. lawyers and E. Jean Carroll's lawyers. agreed that he could hold off paying her. the $5 million. as long as interest continued to accrue. until such time as the Supreme Court.

denies a petition to hear the case, and. the Supreme Court just denied his. petition to hear the case. And and the. gall of Trump's lawyers to say, "Well, even though that's what we said and what. we filed with the court back in 2023, we would like her to consent to, you. know, not being paid for an additional. time." And no, E. Jean Carroll is not. consenting. In fact, they're asking for.

an accelerated date to have the court. disperse the money that has basically. been paid into sort of a court escrow. account to satisfy the $5 million. judgment while the case was working its. way through the appellate process. >> Just a quick note here to say that if. you appreciate my work, which is and. always will be 100% free, a small ask is. if you could please pre-order my new. book, The Day After, which explores how. Democrats must finally wield power if. they're fortunate enough to get it back.

I'll also be on tour in D.C., New York, and L.A. mid-July. You can grab tickets. to the tour, and you can pre-order the. book at the same link, which I'll put on. the screen and in the post description. of this video. You can also find them at. briantylercohen.com/book. Again, I'll never paywall a single piece. of content, but this is the one time. that I'll ask for some support for a. book that I really think meets this. moment. Thanks so much. You know, something that I think is interesting is. that um. Roberta Kaplan, as you mentioned, informed Trump's team that, quote, "Carroll does not consent." And I.

thought that that was such an. interesting thing to include in the. reporting about this because, of course, E. Jean Carroll not consenting is the. whole basis of this thing. And so that. what what worries me here is that Donald. Trump is going to hear that and not. listen because that seems to be a. recurring theme as it relates to Trump. and E. Jean Carroll. >> Yeah, I mean, Donald Trump is clearly a. sore loser, and he refuses to accept law. a loss that was delivered to him first. by a jury of his peers in New York,

second by a court of appeals, and now. third by the United States Supreme Court. that he often refers to as his Supreme. Court. Of course, they've been ruling. against him a little bit more frequently. in in recent days and weeks. So, you. know, it's not a surprise that Donald. Trump continues to sort of not make good. not only on his promises as I mentioned. back in July 2023 when the parties. agreed that he would pay up when the.

Supreme Court refused to review the. case, but he's not making good on his. debts and he's not accepting the sort of. lawful jurisdiction of the court now. that he has definitively lost and the. case is over. Um, you know, if there's a. little bit of good news, it is that E. Jean Carroll's lawyers a couple of years. ago said, what? We will hold off trying. to collect until the Supreme Court. refuses to review the case as long as. interest continues to accrue." So, guess.

what Donald Trump owes now? Not just the. 5 million that the jury awarded E. Jean. Carroll and ordered him to pay, but I. think with interest it's now up to. almost 5 million and almost 780,000. dollars, pushing 6 million. And I have. to believe that Donald Trump has finally. reached the end of the line and he will. have to make good on that money judgment. that the jury ordered him to pay. >> Glenn, can you help me understand why. Trump's team thought that this is.

something that Roberta Kaplan and E. Jean Carroll's team would ever agree to? Like on what grounds, after Donald Trump. has dragged this out for years? I. believe this judgment came, if I'm not. mistaken, in 2023. It's now 2026. He's. used every avenue he could, every. dilatory tactic that he to prevent. having to to prevent himself from having. to pay. Why would they think that E. Jean Carroll's team would be amenable to. this?

>> I'm going to draw a reasonable inference. here, which is what we prosecutors do. We look at the available facts, the. evidence, and we draw reasonable. inferences. So, when you ask, you know, why in the world would Donald Trump's. legal team make this really absurd, if. not obscene and depraved, request, I. have to believe, I have to infer, Brian, that this is not the attorney's choice. This is the client demanding something. that is unreasonable, indeed laughable, and you know, good lawyering involves.

pushing back on your client when they do. something that really has no good faith. basis in fact or in law. But, you know, some attorneys are weak and they are. forever kowtowing to an unreasonable. client. So, I have a feeling this is. Donald Trump saying, "I'm not going to. pay and you all need to file something. in court making it clear that I'm not. going to pay or at least continuing to. delay this until I can come up with some.

other scheme to wiggle out of paying. what a jury ordered I pay to E. Jean. Carroll.". >> You know, I think what's especially. interesting, and you alluded to this. before, is that Trump will bend over. backwards to to to prevent himself from. having to pay a single cent if he can. help it. And yet, at the same time, this. guy is fleecing the federal government. and the American people for every dollar. he can get. I'm going to read a a quick. rundown based on his latest financial. disclosure of how much money this.

populist champion, Donald Trump, has. made. $635 million from the Trump meme. coin, uh $594 million from World Liberty. Financial Token and stablecoin sales. That's a crypto venture that he. co-founded with his sons. $65 million. from selling equity in that same. company. $80 million from media. settlements from ABC, CBS, Meta, and. YouTube. Um his total crypto haul was over $1.4. billion. in a single year. And his net worth has.

tripled from $2.4 billion. to $6.3 billion. And this. won't pay $5 million that that has owed. E. Jean Carroll based on that judgment. that he's owed her as of 3 years ago is. still doing everything he can to make. sure that he doesn't have to pay a. single cent. This guy will fleece. Americans for every dime he can get, but. not spend a single dime of his own money. if he can help it. >> With apologies to and and. and I know, you know, that that feels.

like an irreverent thing to say, but. Brian, this man has profited off the. presidency in a way that is at a minimum. horrifically unseemly and obscene and. depraved. And. come January 2029 when the rule of law. is again a thing, these matters must be. investigated to see if all this grifting. and profiteering off of his office. violates any of our nation's laws. And I.

am betting that a full, fair, aggressive, apolitical investigation. into what Donald Trump is doing to the. American people may very well disclose. criminal conduct. But as you say, he's. making billions and billions of dollars. because, you know, a small fraction of. the population decided to vote for him. for president. So, once you're a. multi-billionaire, it would seem to me. that 5 or 6 million is something you can.

probably find in the couch cushions in. one of his gold-plated apartments in. Trump Tower. And it really is absurd and. just obscene that he is not paying what. a jury ordered him to pay because that. jury found that he sexually assaulted. and defamed E. Jean Carroll. >> Last point here, and I I want to dig. into something that you just said. because I think this is important. And. it's actually something that I bring up. in in my new book, The Day After, which. is coming out in a couple of weeks. So,

for folks who would like to support my. work, um I would uh. humbly ask that you pre-order it. I'm. going to put a link to the post in the. post description of this video to. pre-order. But just this idea of. accountability for people who are. committing criminal acts right now. Obviously, we didn't see that in Trump. in between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0. because Merrick Garland decided to do. whatever he could to prevent the optics. of politicization. But as we see these. financial crimes and this grifting to. the degree that that that it's taking.

place right now. Um. It You know, and we see almost on a. daily basis some announcement that sends. the stock market up or down, but we find. out later in the day that there was all. this trading activity just a few minutes. earlier before the announcement came. out. I mean, there's so much insider. trading happening. There's so much. grift, graft, and corruption happening. on a daily basis that it would boggle. anybody's mind. Is this something that. the next administration would still have.

grounds to investigate and possibly. prosecute. um uh given, you know, the amount of. time that's going to pass. Would Would. this still fall under the statute of. limitations? >> Absolutely. The the shortest time frame, the most short-fused. statute of limitations for federal. crimes is 5 years. Everything Donald. Trump has been doing during this. presidential term will be well within. the statute of limitations for at least. a year once Donald Trump falls from.

power, assuming he makes it to the end. of his term and he's not, you know, removed either for unfitness or he's. impeached or, you know, he is otherwise. unable due to health reasons to continue. in the presidency. So, yeah, I can't. tell you how enthusiastic. many of us who were career civil. servants, public servants as federal. prosecutors and serving in other ways. are looking forward to being part of the. cleanup mission, the accountability.

mission come January 2029. And when. people say there's too much crime that. has been committed by Trump and his. criminal associates for us to get our. arms around, shouldn't we just turn the. other cheek and, you know, put it all. behind us? And I say, you know what? There's actually too much crime for us. not to get our arms around and hold. these people accountable for what they. have done to American democracy and for. victimizing the American people day. after day after day in so many ways that. violate our nation's laws.

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