Donald Trump loses the defamation process filed by the writer E. Jean Carroll. Obliged to pay damages of $ 83.3 million
E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, Photo: Kena Betancur / AFP / Profimedia
A New York Court of Appeal confirmed Donald Trump's conviction on Monday to pay $ 83.3 million to the author E. Jean Carroll for defamating it, against some rape charges, AFP and Reuters reports.
In this civil trial, the US president was convicted in January 2024 by a popular jury, who considered him guilty of defaming the former editorialist of “Elle” E. Jean Carroll, after which he was accused of rape in the 1990s, writes News.ro.
The jury recognized Donald Trump's intention to “damage” Elizabeth Jean Carroll.
On Monday, the Manhattan Court of Appeal rejected Trump's argument that the January 2024 verdict should be canceled, because he deserves presidential immunity in the process filed by Carroll.
“The compensations properly granted by the jury were reasonable, considering the extraordinary and serious facts of this case,” a complete of three judges wrote in a unanimous opinion.
On June 13, the Court of Appeal confirmed a separate Verdict of the Jury of May 2023, which granted to Carroll $ 5 million damages against Trump for slander and sexual assault.
Elizabeth Jean Carroll, 81-year-old, a former editorialist of the magazine “Elle”, accused Trump of assaulting her in a 1996 in a test cab of Bergdorf Goodman. Trump initially denied her accusation in June 2019, telling a reporter that E. Jean Carroll “wasn't his kind” and that he had invented the story to sell his memories “What We Need Men?” (Why do we need men?). He repeatedly repeated his comments from a post on Social Truth October 2022, which led to the 5 million dollar verdict, although the jury did not find that Trump raped Carroll.
The compensation of $ 83.3 million encompassed $ 18.3 million for emotional and reputation damage and $ 65 million.
In his last appeal, Trump claimed that the decision of the US Supreme Court of July 2024, which granted him a substantial criminal immunity, also protects him from the civil case filed by Carroll. He claimed that he spoke about Carroll in 2019 as president and that the non-granting could undermine the independence of executive power.
Trump also said that American district judge Lewis Kaplan, who supervised both trials, also committed other mistakes, including eliminating his testimony that, talking about Carroll, he just wanted to defend himself, his family “and, honestly, the presidency”.
In June, Carroll launched another memoir book, “Not My Type: One Woman Vs.” He is not my kind: a woman against a president), about his legal battles against Trump.
