Trump Loses Appeal In E. Jean Carroll $83M Judgment

Forbes reports:

A federal appeals court Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump’s latest effort to throw out writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him, ruling against the president’s request to have the government step in for him as a party in the case—and putting Trump one step closer to having to pay out $83 million in damages.

Trump is appealing the jury verdict ordering him to pay $83 million for defaming Carroll, based on his attacks against her after she publicly accused him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.

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A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday refused the Justice Department’s effort to put itself on the hook for an $83.3 million defamation award advice columnist E. Jean Carroll won at trial from President Trump.

Last week, the 2nd Circuit upheld her earlier $5 million jury… pic.twitter.com/Y5YX4m6c88

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