By Hedelberto López Blanch on July 12, 2026
illustration: Adán Iglesias Toledo.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by convicted President Donald Trump and found him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming Jean Carroll, ordering him to pay her—the former magazine columnist—$5 million.
Carroll sued Trump in 2019 for defamation and sued him again in 2022 for defamation and assault after a New York law took effect that allowed victims of sexual abuse to file civil lawsuits for past incidents. What a president!
The 2022 lawsuit alleged that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll at a New York department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her by claiming she had fabricated the story to boost book sales.
As he always does in every lawsuit, and there have been many, he has been involved in, Trump denied any wrongdoing, arguing that Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan made several errors by allowing the jury to hear testimony from two women who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by him in previous years.
Trump also argued that the judge should not have allowed the jury to view the “Access Hollywood” recording, in which he is heard saying in 2005, with an open microphone, that he kisses and gropes women.
“You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women. I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. I just kiss them. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything… Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything,” Trump is heard saying on the recording. What a president!
The convicted president must now face Carroll’s other lawsuit from 2019, in which she is seeking $83 million in damages, and his lawyers will file an appeal with the Supreme Court in the coming days.
But for Trump, these are just a few of the misdeeds he’s committed throughout his life, and paying those few million is a drop in the bucket for him—especially since his personal fortune has increased by $2.2 billion since his return to the White House in January 2025. Media outlets reported that he and his family are investing in more than a dozen companies that do business with the federal government. What a president!
Ty Cobb, Trump’s attorney during his first presidential term, commented in an interview with CNN: “We are witnessing the greatest avalanche of corruption in human history over the past 18 months…. This is about someone who devotes himself every day to the accumulation of wealth and power.”
In a 927-page report disclosing personal financial information—as required by the Office of Government Ethics—the president details his $2.2 billion in income for 2025, his first year in office. About $1.4 billion of that total came from investments in the family’s cryptocurrency business. Trump reported nearly 600 million in income from the cryptocurrency company World Financial Liberty, which he founded with his children, and another 636 million from his $Trump cryptocurrency.
Over the past year, the president has also earned tens of millions in royalties and licensing fees for new hotels, resorts, and golf courses, often in countries that were negotiating with the U.S. government over tariffs, military aid, and other issues.
He also earned millions by licensing his name to various products, ranging from the Trump Bible to sneakers, watches, and other branded items. The financial disclosure report includes more than 80 million in revenue resulting from legal settlements to resolve lawsuits he filed against the ABC and CBS television networks, YouTube, and other companies.
And to conclude this brief dossier, media outlets list some of his “fine virtues”:
Mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein report, including alleged pedophilia; invoked the Fifth Amendment 97 times; 34 convictions for felonies; 91 criminal charges; 26 allegations of sexual assault.
In addition: 6 bankruptcies; 5 deferments of military service; 4 formal indictments; 2 impeachment proceedings; 2 companies found guilty; 1 fake university shut down; 1 fake charity shut down; A $25 million settlement for fraud; a $5 million verdict for sexual abuse; a $2 million judgment for abuse at a fake charity; a $93 million judgment for sexual abuse; a judgment of over 400 million for fraud. What a president!
Hedelberto López Blanch Is a Cuban journalist. He writes for the daily newspaper Juventud Rebelde and the weekly Opciones and is a frequent contributor to Cuban en Resumen, He is the author of “Cuban Emigration to the United States,” “Secret Stories of Cuban Doctors in Africa,” “Miami, Dirty Money,” and “Rubio, an Uncontrollable Mythomaniac,”.
Source: Cuba en Resumen