Posted on 04/25/2024 2:21:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A federal judge rejected former President Trump’s latest attempt for a new trial, upholding the verdict and $83.3 million award in his defamation case against writer E. Jean Carroll.
In a written opinion, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Trump’s arguments are “without merit.”
“Mr. Trump’s malicious and unceasing attacks on Ms. Carroll were disseminated to more than 100 million people. They included public threats and personal attacks, and they endangered Ms. Carroll’s health and safety,” Kaplan wrote.
A jury in January ordered him to pay $83.3 million to Carroll after Kaplan found he was liable for defamation. Last month, Trump demanded that he receive a new trial.
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She openly called Trump a rapist with no actual evidence, but that’s A-OK
Well Trump has to take blame for this. If he had kept his mouth shut after the original verdict and just appealed that on plenty of reversible error then this Defamation suit would never have happened. He is his own worst enemy at times.
I almost want to see Trump offer her half that amount if she publicly admits she made the whole thing up.
Judge Kaplan, Judge Engoron, Merrick Garland, Judge Beryl Howell, Shenna Bellows (Maine Secretary of State) , Jena Griswold (Colorado Secretary of State), George Soros, Reid Hoffman (financial support for E Jean Carroll), Jamie Raskin and Debbie Wasserman, Schultz( co-sponsored legislation to kick Trump off the ballot)
Trump is running for president. So you think he should’ve just keep quiet about this while the media smears him? Trump is more popular now than ever. He got there by ignoring advice like yours.
Lewis Kaplan is another hack Clinton judge.
What are the odds of WHAT? Your post is too ambiguous to provide an answer to your question.
Well Trump has to take blame for this. If he had kept his mouth shut after the original verdict and just appealed that on plenty of reversible error then this Defamation suit would never have happened. He is his own worst enemy at times.
Submitting to all the crap is the cause of a lot of our problems.
Was the original case a federal case or a state civil law case? I am trying to understand why the appeal is in the hands of a federal judge.
Corrupt and dishonest judge.
The defamation suit was for something he said from BEFORE the first lawsuit was adjudicated (might have been before it was even filed IIRC).
Everything the pseudojudge said is BS.
Everything the pseudojudge said is BS.
Recall again that the “defamation” was simply denying that he ever did what she said.
Meaning that pleading innocence is...defamation
And he’s supposed to shut up and let the Gonzo journalist just defame HIM??!
Kaplan is the defamer. And $84M is insane. It should be the amount that Carroll is fined for making up crap.
Sadly true.
I tell liberal friends that Trump’s a jerk in many ways, but the border was safe and the economy was great when he was president. “What counts more than that?”
Isn’t truth a positive defense against libel?
Or is that concept also gone from this turd-world country?
[Isn’t truth a positive defense against libel?
Or is that concept also gone from this turd-world country?]
Not a well-connected perp, just another random thug in South Carolina. In Africa, they’d douse him with gasoline, set him on fire. Here, he walks, is received like a conquering hero. That’s Clown World, Democrat World.
It’s motion for a new trial. It’s a routine legal practice to preserve the record and the final opportunity to raise any arguments that might be raised on appeal. It’s almost never actually granted.
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