Mid-Day Update: May 14, 2026
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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John gives you the news of the day that you need to know, including the temporary blocking of Trump's $83 million payment to E. Jean Carroll, the resignation of Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, and the Senate's resolution to withhold pay during a government shutdown.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Thursday, May 14th. |
| 0:04.7 | Happy Thursday, folks. A federal appeals court this afternoon temporarily blocking Trump's $83 million |
| 0:10.3 | payment to E.G. and Carroll, in 2019, E.G. and Carol alleged, we'll put quotation marks around |
| 0:16.8 | that, that Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf-Goodman dressing room back in 1990s, |
| 0:22.3 | which cannot name the date or even the year that this allegedly took place. |
| 0:26.4 | The courts, which are, of course, ripe with rogue judges and Marxist leftists, |
| 0:33.0 | taking sides with her with no evidence. |
| 0:35.4 | Trump has, of course, denied the allegations and called E.J. and Carroll a total whack job. |
| 0:39.6 | Who's not his type? |
| 0:41.2 | The jury decided that E. Jean Carroll did not need to prove that President Trump raped her. |
| 0:44.9 | However, that jury said E. Jean Carroll proved Trump sexually abused her when he did sexual things to her, |
| 0:51.5 | with no evidence, of course, to it at all. |
| 0:54.6 | The Manhattan jury reached a verdict in this case, the defamation case, in |
| 0:58.4 | 2023, and ordered Trump to pay her $5 million. |
| 1:01.7 | Appeals court upheld that 2024 ruling of $5 million. |
| 1:05.2 | In a separate defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll in 2024 of January, |
| 1:09.9 | Trump was ordered to pay another $83.3 million |
| 1:12.5 | in damages to Eging Carroll. His efforts to assert immunity over the 2019 statements about |
| 1:17.8 | Carroll were, of course, rejected by the rogue courts. Second Court of Appeals temporarily |
| 1:22.1 | blocking this payment this afternoon with some conditions, as it allows President Trump |
| 1:27.0 | to fight these ridiculous, absurd allegations. |
| 1:30.9 | Up on Capitol Hill, another missing lawmakers, folks. Democrat, Congresswoman Federico Wilson, |
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