Under Alfred the Great, circa 880, Law No. 32 included this remedy for defamation of character:
“If anyone is guilty of public slander, and it is proved against him, it is to be compensated with no lighter penalty than the cutting off of his tongue, with the proviso that it be redeemed at no cheaper rate than it is valued in proportion to the wergild.”
We won’t wish that on Donald Trump for his unceasing slander of E Jean Caroll, but he really does need to stop.
If he can’t be made to pay a lot, or keeps at it, history and fiction provide suggestions for other punishments.
A few centuries after Alfred, in Scotland and England, they shut people up (mostly women) by fitting them out with an iron muzzle called a scold’s bridle or branks.
And, jumping from cruel history to the fictional near future, Neal Stephenson in Seveneves caused a crazy character to silence a mouthy former president with an inside-the-mouth piercing that pinioned her tongue.
There’s always some answer!