Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day. And that’s especially if you’re Donald Trump and your latest efforts to manipulate the system to cloak all your sins (if not dismiss them altogether) has failed. The Washington Post is reporting that “A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s $83.3 million judgment against President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll.”
The judges also dismissed Trump’s efforts to appeal the case by invoking presidential immunity by citing a Supreme Court decision last year finding that presidents were broadly immune to prosecutions for official acts.
Carroll had accused Trump in 2019 of sexually assaulting her two decades earlier. Trump has repeatedly denied her claims and criticized Carroll. She filed two civil lawsuits against Trump in response, both of which went to trial during the years between his two White House terms.
Last year, a civil jury hearing one of the cases concluded that Trump had defamed Carroll and ordered him to pay her more than $83 million. In court filings, Trump’s attorneys have decried what they called a “grossly excessive compensatory and punitive-damages” awarded to Carroll.
In 2023, a separate jury found that Trump had sexually abused and defamed Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages. The 2nd Circuit rejected Trump’s appeal in that case. His attorneys signaled in court papers last month that they intend to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear that case.
Now the thought that comes to my mind is maybe Trump should go out and defame the lady again and then his next judgment will be for $183 million — or maybe more. It would be comical, if it wasn’t so disgusting, that Trump tried to invoke presidential immunity, which is limited to official acts. How you can try to spin rape as an official act is a novel legal concept. It did not go very far.
Thank God for some sanity and good news from the court system which Trump has polluted with his appointees and his cronies on the Supreme Court. This ruling does give one hope that maybe the rule of law isn’t a dead and buried concept. I’m sure Susie Wiles is trying to pry Trump’s phone out of his hand before he gets on Truth Social and starts berating the woke, disgusting justices of the appellate court, his usual blather when he’s had a setback.
“Some people never come clean.” The Eagles
tRump’s idea (or the idea whispered into his gullible ear by any one of numerous cronies trained in by Stephen Miller) that rape can be construed as a presidential act is disgusting, offensive, risible, and perverse. His dick isn’t made of gold, and neither is he. Money and power can only get you so far, and tRump has about run to the end of that road. Ms. Carol deserves to receive a high rate of interest on the money tRump has kept from her since the original rape so many years ago. I only hope she collects what is due to her before tRump tips. There is going to be a long line waiting for money from tRump’s estate, and sorting out which were presidential acts or not will probably take his lawyers years to litigate. That is, if said litigators don’t run off with whatever money they can grab to make up for what he had not paid to them prehumously. (Is that word?) 🤓