Trump fumes – Donald Trump unleashed a furious attack on the Supreme Court after it declined to review a civil verdict finding that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, leaving a $5 million judgment in place. The outburst came as he also criticized the Court’s de
For Trump, the timing felt like another insult dressed up as law.
On Monday. he posted to Truth Social to rage at the Supreme Court after it declined to review his case tied to the E. Jean Carroll civil judgment. The decision left a $5 million verdict in place. and Trump treated it like a personal attack on his agenda—using the kind of language he has leaned on repeatedly since the start of his court battles.
“Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to ‘review’ a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met,” Trump wrote. “I will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”
The underlying case goes back to 2023, when a civil jury found that Trump had sexually abused and defamed Carroll. That ruling was upheld on appeal from Trump, and the president asked the high court to step in. The Supreme Court declined, allowing the civil finding to stand.
Trump didn’t stop at his disappointment with the Court. On social media, he called the Carroll ruling a “case…against the United States of America and all it stands for,” and argued that New York had created what he described as a one-off law to go after him.
“New York State created a Law, for an instant speck of time, going back many decades, in order to wrongfully ‘nab’ me,” he wrote. “It was tailormade, and this Injustice cannot be allowed to stand!”
The legal fight is widening beyond the $5 million judgment. Carroll later received $83 million in a separate defamation case in 2024, tied to statements Trump made about her in 2019. Trump’s attorneys are appealing that separate decision in a lower court.
While Trump was fixated on the Carroll outcome, he used another Supreme Court decision to broaden the argument into voting rules and federal power. In a separate post, he attacked the Court’s ruling that states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.
The issue traces to a Mississippi law. The Republican National Committee challenged the rule that allowed late mail-in ballots to be counted. but only if they were sent before the deadline. The Supreme Court upheld the law in a 5-4 decision. with the liberal justices joined by Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts.
Trump framed the voting decision as part of a larger fight over what he calls election-security requirements. He said the Carroll ruling makes the passage of the SAVE America Act—described by him as a strict set of new federal voting requirements that has been stalled in Congress—“all the more important.”.
Then, in a final escalation of the rhetoric, Trump wrote about what he characterized as a dangerous political movement.
“There is a powerful Communist Movement taking place in our Country, one more dangerous than World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or September 11th,” he posted.
The sequence of his posts lands on a single theme: Trump sees both the Supreme Court’s refusal to intervene in the Carroll verdict and its stance on late-arriving ballots as obstacles to his broader political fight. For the Supreme Court, the question was whether to take up the cases. For Trump, the question was whether the Court would—or could—be moved.
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