By Hedelberto López Blanch* / Special Collaboration for Resumen Latinoamericano.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review an appeal by convicted President Donald Trump and found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming Jean Carroll, ordering him to pay her, a former magazine columnist, five million dollars.
Carroll sued Trump in 2019 for defamation and again in 2022 for defamation and assault after a law went into effect in New York allowing victims of sexual abuse to file civil lawsuits for past incidents. What a president!
The 2022 lawsuit alleged that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in a New York department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her by claiming she fabricated the story to boost book sales.
As he has done in every trial 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 he had sexually assaulted them in previous years.
Trump also maintained that the judge should not have allowed the jury to see the “Access Hollywood” recording in which he can be heard saying, with an open microphone, that he kisses and gropes women in 2005.
“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 vagina. You can do anything,” Trump can be heard saying in the recording. What a president!
The convicted former president has to face another lawsuit from Carroll, filed in 2019, demanding he pay $83 million, 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 has committed throughout his life, and paying those few million dollars is a pittance to him, especially since his personal fortune has increased by $2.2 billion since his return to the White House in January 2025. News outlets have 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 lawyer during his first presidential term, commented in an interview with CNN: “We are witnessing the greatest avalanche of corruption in the history of humankind in the last 18 months…. This is about someone who is dedicated every single day to accumulating wealth and power.”
In a 927-page report of mandatory personal financial disclosures to the Office of Government Ethics, the president detailed his $2.2 billion in income for 2025, his first year in office. Some $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 own currency, $Trump.
In the past year, the president has also earned tens of millions in royalties and licensing fees for new hotels, resorts, and golf courses, frequently in countries that were negotiating with the U.S. government on tariffs, military aid, and other issues.
He also earned millions by putting his name on various products, from the Trump Bible and sneakers to watches and other branded items. His net worth report includes over $80 million in income resulting from legal settlements to resolve lawsuits he filed against ABC and CBS television networks, YouTube, and other companies.
And to conclude this brief dossier, news outlets list some of his “good qualities”:
Mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein report, including allegations of pedophilia; invoked the Fifth Amendment 97 times; 34 felony convictions; 91 criminal charges; 26 accusations of sexual assault.
In addition, 6 bankruptcies; 5 deferments from military service; 4 indictments; 2 impeachment proceedings; 2 companies convicted; 1 fake university shut down; 1 fake charity shut down; $25 million settlement for fraud; A $5 million verdict for sexual abuse; a $2 million sentence for abuse at a fake charity; a $93 million sentence for sexual abuse; a sentence of more than $400 million for fraud. What a president!
IMAGE CREDIT: Cover illustration: Adán Iglesias Toledo
(*) Hedelberto López Blanch is a renowned Cuban journalist. He writes for the newspaper Juventud Rebelde and the weekly Opciones. He is the author of “Cuban Emigration to the United States,” “Secret Stories of Cuban Doctors in Africa,” and “Miami, Dirty Money,” among others.
[ SOURCE: R / EN RESUMEN ]
