The E. Jean Carroll case proves how easy it is for celebrities and rich people to be targeted, publicly destroyed, and financially punished by false allegations.
On the June 29, 2026 episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel Maddow repeated E. Jean Carroll’s made-up story.
Maddow said:
“You know, who else got paid today, or who learned today that she’s gonna get paid? E. Jean Carroll.
In the 1990s, E. Jean Carroll was a very successful, very well known magazine writer and columnist. She wrote for Saturday Night Live, she was an editor at New York magazine and Esquire magazine. She was Playboy’s first female contributing editor. And in her New York glam media celebrity, E. Jean Carroll was a sort of distant acquaintance of Donald Trump.
And she says that in the mid 1990s, she met up with Trump by happenstance at a department store in New York. And she says he essentially boxed her in, in a dressing room and raped her. She filed a civil lawsuit against him. A jury in that case found him liable for sexually abusing her, but not for rape, also found him liable for defaming her. The jury ordered Trump to pay her $5 million.
Trump refused and appealed, but today the United States Supreme Court decided they would not save Donald Trump from that verdict. And so now E. Jean Carroll will be paid. E. Jean Carroll will be paid millions of dollars by Donald Trump personally, potentially with tens of millions more to come in the future if the other verdict she obtained against him also turns out this way.
But regardless of any future potential payments from Donald Trump to E. Jean Carroll, as of today, he must pay her $5 million. That case has gone as far as it can go. It is settled. It is done. He must pay her.”
This entire case shows how corrupt and politicized our system can be. New York City is one of the most heavily Democratic, anti-Trump venues in the country. Biden won Manhattan 86.4% to Trump’s 12.2% in 2020. But even there, with that jury pool, Carroll still did not prove rape under New York law. Yet President Trump is forced to pay for something that never happened.
The allegation has always been ridiculous. We are supposed to believe Donald Trump — a celebrity billionaire surrounded for decades by models, actresses, Playboy Playmates, and beautiful women — raped E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room? She wasn’t even his type physically!
This entire story is beyond hilarious.
Think about it people. A rich and famous billionaire with his pick of countless beautiful woman was so desperate that he raped an unattractive woman in a public dressing room?
Then even more absurd, is Carroll did not go public with the accusation until 2019, more than two decades after the alleged incident. She waited until Trump was president, ahead of the 2020 election, to make one of the most stupid allegations imaginable.
There was no criminal conviction. No police report from the time. No medical evidence. No physical proof. No witness who saw the alleged act occur.
Nothing.
Trump has always denied it.
But New York Democrats deliberately passed the Adult Survivors Act, and Gov. Kathy Hochul signed it in 2022. The special law temporarily opened a one-year window allowing old sexual-abuse claims to be brought even after the statute of limitations had expired. That law purposely opened the door for Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump.
And once again, the case dragged into another election cycle.
The 2023 jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and ordered him to pay $5 million. But the jury did not find that Carroll proved rape under New York law.
Trump was not criminally convicted of rape. He was not criminally convicted of sexual assault. This was a civil case decided under the lower “more likely than not” standard, not the criminal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal, leaving the $5 million civil judgment in place.
That does not magically turn Carroll’s allegation into proven rape. It only means the civil verdict stands. But it is not settled, and it is not done — because the truth still matters.
The entire case rests on a decades-old accusation, no police report from the time, no medical evidence, no physical proof, no criminal conviction, and Trump’s complete denial.
Carroll smeared Trump with an allegation that was never criminally proven, never backed by physical evidence, and rejected as rape by the left-wing jury under New York law.
But the media and Democrats got what they wanted — a damaging narrative against Trump that spanned two election cycles.
It is outrageous that someone can be found liable for sexual abuse without any proof, and then found liable for defamation for denying the allegation and calling it a hoax.
Never believe all women — because women lie.
President Trump should sue E. Jean Carroll for defamation.
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