It was confirmed that the president must pay US $ 83.3 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll. The sanction comes after an extensive judicial process initiated in 2019.
A New York Court of Appeals on Monday ratified compensation for U $ S83.3 million that the president of United States, Donald Trumpyou must pay the writer E. Jean Carroll by defamation. The sanction comes after an extensive judicial process initiated in 2019, when the journalist accused him of violation and the American judicial system determined his responsibility in different planes.
Trump had tried to reverse the sentence that ordered him to face the millionaire compensation. However, the decision was unanimous On the part of the three appeal judges of the second US circuit, in a federal court based in Manhattan, who chose to maintain the original ruling.
The magistrates were sharp in their resolution: “He has not identified any foundation that justifies reconsider our previous decision on presidential immunity,” they said in reference to the ex -president’s defense strategy, which sought to rely on the recent expansion of their immunity by the Supreme Court. In addition, they stressed that the lower court “did not erred in any of the contested rulings” and that the compensation set by the jury are fair and reasonable.
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The facts for which Trump will pay E. Jean Carroll
The demand for defamation originated after Trump attacks Carroll in different instances after the allegations of sexual abuse that she had formulated against her. According to the judicial presentation, the ex -president resorted to public events, social networks and even the judicial process itself To discredit it, which motivated the writer’s lawyers to ask the jury for a sum high enough to stop their behavior.
The jury concluded that Trump had acted with “Real malice”that is, with full knowledge of the falsehood of his statements or with a reckless contempt for the truth. This determination resulted in most of the fine – about US $ 65 million– correspond to punitive damage. The rest of the sum, until completing the U $ S83.3 millionit went to damages to directly compensate for Carroll.
In parallel, another panel of judges of the second circuit had already confirmed at the end of December the Sexual abuse verdictindependent of the cause by defamation. In that case, Carroll obtained a compensation for U $ S5 millionafter the jury declared Trump responsible for having abused her in a luxury store tester Bergdorf Goodmanin New York, in the mid -1990s.
This second ruling, ratified in 2023, also settled that the then president had defamed the writer in statements after her exit from the White House in 2022.
Source: Ambito
