Posted on 05/11/2023 7:34:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys on Thursday filed a notice to appeal the $5 million judgment awarded to E. Jean Carroll in her civil lawsuit against Trump.
A nine-member jury on Tuesday found Trump liable for sexual battery and defaming Carroll and granted her an award of $5 million in damages. The jury awarded Carroll $2 million in damages for the sexual battery claim and $3 million for defamation.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump’s attorneys filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, formally starting the appeal process after Trump previously indicated he would appeal the judgment.
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I haven’t one time seen Fox News shows (not what they call Entertainment - but News shows like Cavuto and Baier) say they the woman can’t identify the date or the year.
That’s truly amazing.
Anyone can sue a man for anything and Win.
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E. Jean Caroll better brace herself, it’s a certainty that Trump will sue her once this sham verdict against him is thrown out.
How the hell did he ruin her reputation?? She has no reputation...she’s 79...
What’s gonna get thrown out is the brand new “temporary” law that Hochul signed....and that makes the entire case moot..i.e., it was well passed the statute of limitations.
For me, that fully means that it NEVER happened. I don’t understand at all how they can get away with this BS.
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She’s 79 yrs old.
That means she could serve another 30 yrs in the Senate, if Elected.
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From what I’ve seen of the ho, five million bucks isn’t enough to repair those damages. She ready for the boneyard.
She fancies herself as Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp all wrapped up in one?
It was a federal case. Can he switch it to Florida?
This was a federal case. Can he move it to Florida for the appeal?
The jury found Trump liable on two grounds: sexual assault, and defamation. The defamation claim was clearly timely, because she sued soon after he called her a liar. That didn’t depend on the recent change in the NY statute of limitations. That change applied only to sex crimes.
I don’t know how likely it is that the appellate court will say that that legislation was unconstitutional. What I do know is that, even if the court rules in Trump’s favor on that point, it won’t invalidate the entire case. The appellate court would set aside the $2 million judgment for sexual assault but leave standing the $3 million judgment for defamation.
You betcha! Appeal this BS
Well, she never proved anything. That makes her a liar.
I believe that the team that backed Carroll's lawsuit studied and learned from the Christine Blasey Ford case against Brett Kavanaugh.
Ford, too, couldn't remember certain facts about the party she attended, although she said the exact date of the party was July 1, 1982. She didn't recall which house the party was in, or how she got to the party or how she got home from the party.
However, offering up the date of the party was damaging enough. I think it surprised everyone when Kavanaugh produced a calendar from his high school years showing his whereabouts on July 1, 1982.
President Trump, as the then-CEO of the Trump Corporation, must have records of his whereabouts going back decades. I believe that's why Carroll declined to provide an exact date, because she knew that Trump could provide records of his whereabouts on that date, witnesses who were present in meetings on that date, flight records for that date, etc.
By not pinning down the alleged assault to a specific date and time, Trump was denied the ability to mount an alibi defense, which was the strategy of the Carroll legal team. President Trump's lawyers should have been perfectly capable of making the argument that Carroll refused to give a date because any date she picked would have been alibied by extensive Trump company records.
-PJ
Mr Trump,we really want to hear your alibi. Where were you between the days of Jan 1 1990 and Dec 31 1999 between the hours of Bergdorf Department Store's opening time until the end of Civil Twilight.?
Carroll will be filing new defamation charges soon, based on Trump’s statements during his CNN broadcast.
Trump can call me as an expert witness. I concur that she is a whack job.
EC
If the defamation does in fact stay in place, I think this might reach the Supreme Court - at least it should!
How can someone be “guilty” of defamation for calling someone a “liar” when it was not proven that what she said was not a lie? Once the court case is thrown out, her defamation case has no standing.
Her defamation case only has standing because he was found guilty of sexual assault. Without that conviction, it is back to he said/she said, which is not grounds for a defamation claim.
At least that is the way it should be read; any other interpretation is unjust and without merit.
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