New Delhi, July 15 -- NEW YORK - She announced it the way someone sends a flare. "THE EAGLE HAS LANDED," E. Jean Carroll wrote to her Substack readers on Monday, three years and two months after a New York jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her. The $5.62 million that the jury's verdict had entitled her to collect had finally arrived.

The payment, which carries interest accumulated on the original $5 million 2023 verdict, landed after the Supreme Court rejected Trump's final appeal on June 29. With every avenue of delay closed, the money transferred within days. Carroll, 82, sent the word to her subscribers and moved on.

"Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexu...