On Monday, a federal appeals court refused to toss the $83.3 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against President Trump.
In January 2024, a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in her defamation case against Trump.
In 2019, E. Jean Carroll alleged that Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.
Trump has denied the allegations and called E. Jean Carroll a “whack job” who’s “not my type.”
The 9-person jury returned a verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case, where she sought $10 million in damages based on Trump’s 2019 statements about her while he was president.
This is the same woman who previously said ‘rape is sexy’ and a ‘fantasy’ – CNN’s Anderson Cooper was so disturbed he cut to a commercial break.
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FLASHBACK: Trump “rape” accuser E. Jean Carroll says “rape is sexy” during CNN interview with Anderson Cooper pic.twitter.com/m743Q4Z7Ja
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 26, 2024
Trump’s efforts to assert immunity over his 2019 statements about E. Jean Carroll were rejected.
The jury ordered Trump to pay a total of $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll for statements he made defending himself against false rape accusations.
CNBC reported:
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a jury verdict ordering him to pay $83.3 million for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
The decision from a trio of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld that verdict, which Trump argued was both excessive and invalid following a Supreme Court decision that expanded his presidential immunity.
The panel held that Trump “has failed to identify any grounds that would warrant reconsidering our prior holding on presidential immunity.”
The judges also ruled that a lower federal court “did not err in any of the challenged rulings and that the jury’s damages awards are fair and reasonable.”
The decision came less than a week after Trump’s lawyers signaled they will soon ask the Supreme Court to overturn a jury verdict in a separate civil case Carroll had filed against the president, for which she has been awarded $5 million.
