Judge upholds $83m E Jean Carroll defamation verdict against Trump
Source: The Guardian
Thu 25 Apr 2024 14.32 EDT
A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award of more than $83m to the writer E Jean Carroll in a defamation case against Donald Trump after he called her a liar for accusing him of sexually assaulting her.
Judge Lewis Kaplan, a senior district judge on the US district court for the southern district of New York, denied Trumps motion for a new trial and affirmed that Carroll suffered harm caused by Trumps 2019 public statements. Mr Trumps argument is entirely without merit both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact, Kaplan wrote in his opinion released on Thursday.
Carroll, a journalist and advice columnist, first sued Trump in 2019 for sexually abusing her in a New York department store changing room around early 1996. A jury awarded her with $5m in compensatory and punitive damages last year.
Less than a year later, Carroll won a separate defamation lawsuit against the former president after he accused her of lying about the sexual abuse and participating in a political operative. She filed suit over these denials in 2019, claiming they ruined her reputation.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/e-jean-carroll-trump-defamation
GB_RN
(2,384 posts)From Cantaloupe Caligula coming in 3 2
Traildogbob
(8,812 posts)Is the continued hell that is coming in on him triggers an explosion. And not from his ass. Not a fatal one, but one that requires many of his Family to clean that ass and suck the drool from his facial Anus so he wont choke. And his fingers wont work. And he lives 20 more yours. Broke. He is such a Family man, all that Family will be grateful to care for him for the opportunity to prepay all the care he gave them all their lives.
ShazzieB
(16,529 posts)Hilarious, especially considering none of them can be bothered to show up at his trial.
Of course, in that family, the rule is everyone, including dear old Dad, for themself. I'm not sure any of them would even piss on him if he was on fire!
Matthew28
(1,798 posts)that e jean carrol is getting her money?
Oopsie Daisy
(2,674 posts)iluvtennis
(19,874 posts)need a DU legal eagle to chime in.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,567 posts)BlueKota
(1,785 posts)who still make good decisions.
kimbutgar
(21,195 posts)Will he try to take it the supreme court? Or because it is a state conviction they cant interfere?
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)That's the sound of ketchup hitting the wall.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Then he'll appeal to the full Southern District.
Then he'll appeal to the SCOTUS.
He's getting the GOP to pay for his lawyers so why would he bother paying up when he can just extend?
moniss
(4,274 posts)Habba?
ArkansasDemocrat1
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