NEW YORK (AP) – Federal Court of Appeals Monday Discovery of the Citizen Jue President Donald Trump, who has accused sexual assaults and public statements against longtime advice columnists, said in a statement. He has to pay Jean Carroll $83.3 million.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to appeal Trump’s Honor and deemed the Ju-Advisor’s Damages Award “fair and reasonable.”
A panel of three judges cited the hundreds of death threats Carroll faced, said the case records supported the judge’s decision with a determination that the “severity of condemnation” of Trump’s actions was markedly high and perhaps unprecedented.
Trump has unfairly excessive damages, particularly advocating a $65 million punitive damages award, and pushing for a new trial after the Supreme Court expanded the president’s immunity.
However, the Court of Appeals rejected these arguments all round, writing that, given Trump’s “unique and awful facts of this case,” Broadside (81) justified the sudden award.
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Trump’s lawyers responded to a request for comment through a spokesman by calling for an “immediate end to the political weaponization of our judicial system and the prompt termination of all witch hunts, including the Democrat-funded tragedy of Carol’s hoax.” This case will likely go to the Supreme Court.
The Second Circuit said there was “enough evidence” that Trump is recklessly indifferent to Carroll’s health and safety after “sinning that sexual assault is unattractive,” and “not attractive” and “kindly paying,” after “the Second Circuit said there was “sufficient evidence” that Trump is recklessly indifferent to Carroll’s health and safety.
Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, welcomed the decision, saying the Court of Appeals declared “Carroll was telling the truth and President Donald Trump wasn’t.” Kaplan said he “looks forward to the end of the appeal process” taking note of the threats to his clients.
At trial, Carol testified that after suffering hundreds of death threats and losing a decades-long career with Elle, she feared for her safety.
The ruling centered on the second and far more expensive of two honorable and am-damaged awards issued to Carol over her long-standing attacks on her character.
In her memoir and her 2023 trial, Carroll explained that her chance encounter with Trump on Fifth Avenue in Bergdorf Goodman in 1996 began with the flirting of two people who went shopping and ended in a violent struggle in the dressing room.
Carol says Trump slammed her against the wall and pulled her tights down, forcing her.
At the first trial, the ju judges found Trump liable for sexual abuse, but concluded that he did not commit rape as defined under New York law.
Trump repeatedly denied that the encounter happened and accused Carol of creating it to help sell her book. He also said that Carol “is not my type.”
The 2023 ju-deciding judge awarded Carroll $5 million and compensated both of the statements Trump rejected after Trump ended his first presidency.
After that first verdict, the court held a second trial with the new ju umpire, while still president in 2019, with the sole purpose of determining damages for a statement that attacked Carroll’s character and truth.
Trump skipped his first trial, but attended the second trial in the 2024 presidential election. He painted the lawsuit as part of a broader effort to smear him and prevent him from reclaiming the White House.
His lawyers accused the judge of setting rules for damages trials, which barred Trump and his defense team from claiming he was innocent in front of a ju judge. The judge said the matter would be resolved by the first ju judge and there was no need to revisit.
On Monday, the appeals court said the judge “has made no mistake in any of the challenged decisions and agreed that the ju approve’s formal damages award is reasonable in light of the extraordinary and awful facts of the case.”
The Second Circuit said Trump has been attacking Carroll for at least five years, “it happens more extreme and more frequently as trials approach.”
“He also continued these same attacks during the trial itself,” the appeals court said. “In one such statement issued two days after the trial, Trump declared that he would continue to fame Carol “a thousand times.” ”
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Associated Press authors Darlene Superville of Washington, DC and Larry Neumeister of New York City contributed to the report.
