Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation
US appeals court denies challenge after 2023 civil jury trial found Trump sexually abused Carroll then defamed her
Donald Trump has lost his latest legal attempt to challenge the $5m in damages awarded against him for defaming E Jean Carroll, the New York writer who a jury found was sexually abused by the president in the 1990s, before he embarked on his political career.
A US appeals court in New York City on Friday denied Trump’s request to reconsider its decision in December to uphold the jury’s award of $5m to Carroll. The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting.
Carroll, a former magazine columnist, accused Trump of attacking her around 1996 in a department store dressing room in Manhattan. In 2023, a civil jury trial concluded that Trump did sexually abuse her and then defamed her in 2022 when he denied the allegations as a hoax and said that Carroll was “not my type”.
The jury awarded Carroll, who is now 81, a total of $5m in compensatory and punitive damages. More than two dozen different women have accused Trump over the past decade of sexual assault.
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Better incite a pretend insurrection to distract everyone from his failures
Like you've never had to buy an election because you were running from the law?
I mean, we've all been there...
I hate when I’ve been definitively proven guilty of being a sex predator and can’t slander and sue my way out it, soooo annoying
And by failures you mean rapes and attempted cover-ups?
Yes, this, and all his court losses and convictions as well.
Plus all the child-trafficking and cocaine money laundering.
It would probably be shorter to list his successes. Because there really aren’t any.
Failing up?
You might say that’s the thing he is best at in life.
It's not his fault: he has been suffering from life-long affluenza. It's a terrible sickness that quickly eats away the parts of the brain regulating ethical behavior. He can't help himself!
Time to launch an other crypto !
super shitty, but i see how this will not affect trump at all.
A sane criminal would gladly pay 0.01% of their net worth and move on.
A Trump never pays their bills...ever
Who keeps hearing these cases?! What a fucking joke, apparently money makes you innocent of all crimes until it runs out?!
I thought Jean was already paid?
It was delayed by appeals.
Also he has literally no reason to pay her and will never face a single consequence for it.
What are they gonna do, take it to court?
Trump still has the option to bring it to the Sycophantic Court of the United States.
The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting.
In a just world they would be disbarred
That's not how you spell executed.
You ever sort articles by title, and see that a whole colostomy bag full of titles start with "Trump Fails?"