NY – Ex POTUS Donald Trump, sued by E. Jean Carroll for defamation, Trial 15 Jan 2024

[sds71]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1669436658821787648

 

[JerseyGirl]

Second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial against Trump set for January

Carroll is seeking new damages of at least $10 million, based in part on comments Trump made during a CNN town hall last month.

www.nbcnews.com

A federal judge on Thursday set E. Jean Carroll's second defamation trial against former President Donald Trump for early next year.

In a brief scheduling order, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said the civil trial will commence on Jan. 15.

Kaplan on Tuesday had granted Carroll's motion to file an amended complaint in the still-pending case against the former president seeking new damages of at least $10 million, based in part on comments Trump made during a CNN town hall last month.

 

[JennieM]

Second Trump defamation trial brought by E Jean Carroll set for January 2024​

The ex-president is being sued for $10m by the New York writer who already was awarded $5m in an earlier trial against Trump

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The timetable raises the prospect that Trump might have to defend himself in three trials early next year as he seeks the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, a contest in which he is now the frontrunner.

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Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, said her client looks forward to moving expeditiously on her claims.

A lawyer and a spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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On Tuesday, Judge Kaplan allowed Carroll to amend her lawsuit over Trump’s 2019 comments to include similar comments he made recently on CNN.

In a town hall the day after the $5m verdict, Trump called Carroll’s account “fake” and labeled her a “whack job”.

Second Trump defamation trial brought by E Jean Carroll set for January 2024

The ex-president is being sued for $10m by the New York writer who already was awarded $5m in an earlier trial against Trump

www.theguardian.com

 

[sds71]

Donald Trump is suing E. Jean Carroll for defamation:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.171.0.pdf

 

[Stunned]

Donald Trump is suing E. Jean Carroll for defamation:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.171.0.pdf

Defamation of what character? He doesn’t have a good character to destroy! IMO

 

[sds71]

Former US President Donald Trump sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation, alleging she falsely accused him of rape after a jury in a civil trial found that he sexually abused her https://reut.rs/3Xtl6cs

Trump Countersues E. Jean Carroll for Defamation Over Rape Claims

The former U.S. President on Tuesday night filed a counterclaim accusing Carroll of trashing his reputation by publicly accusing him of rape during a May 10 appearance on CNN.

time.com

 

[SouthAussie]

Former US President Donald Trump sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation, alleging she falsely accused him of rape after a jury in a civil trial found that he sexually abused her https://reut.rs/3Xtl6cs

Trump Countersues E. Jean Carroll for Defamation Over Rape Claims

The former U.S. President on Tuesday night filed a counterclaim accusing Carroll of trashing his reputation by publicly accusing him of rape during a May 10 appearance on CNN.

time.com

Roberta Kaplan has since responded ...


"Donald Trump again argues, contrary to both logic and fact, that he was exonerated by a jury that found that he sexually abused E Jean Carroll".
"Trump's filing is thus nothing more than his latest effort to delay accountability for what a jury has already found to be his defamation of E Jean Carroll," she said.
"But whether he likes it or not, that accountability is coming very soon."

Donald Trump sues E Jean Carroll for defamation

www.9news.com.au

 

[Stunned]

He does love to waste the courts time and other people’s money. IMO

 

[SouthAussie]

Miles Taylor's (a DHS chief of staff under Trump) book will be released in a couple of weeks. I wonder if he will be the next one on DT's lawsuit list.


“Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,”

“Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was ‘a very, very evil man.’”

Trump has repeatedly been accused of sexual misconduct in the workplace and beyond.

Trump Talked About What Having Sex With Ivanka Might Be Like, Ex-Staffer Claims

The ex-president talked about his daughter's breasts and "what it might be like to have sex with her," a former Trump administration official writes in a new book.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Elliot_Alderson]

I saw the other day 45 said he is the only president not descended from slave owners.

 

[tlcya]

I saw the other day 45 said he is the only president not descended from slave owners.

Correct - his ancestors didn't immigrate here until after slavery had ended. I would posit, however, that his family has done plenty to exploit people post slavery JMO

 

[Elliot_Alderson]

Correct - his ancestors didn't immigrate here until after slavery had ended. I would posit, however, that his family has done plenty to exploit people post slavery JMO

I see he left that fact out of his little Truth Social humblebrag.

 

[sds71]

Kaplan has *rejected* Trump's belated claim of "presidential immunity".

He rules that Trump failed to raise the immunity in a timely way — and even if he didn't, the claim would fail.


://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.172.0_4.pdf

 

[PommyMommy]

JUN 29, 2023

Judge Says Trump Can’t Claim Presidential Immunity To Dismiss Defamation Suit

Writer E. Jean Carroll is suing the ex-president for at least $10 million in damages.

www.huffpost.com

The judge said Thursday that presidential immunity was meant to protect the president from distraction from public duties but did not amount to a “‘get out of damages liability free’ card that permits the president to say or do anything he or she desires even if that conduct is disconnected entirely from an official function.”

“Subjecting the president to damages liability for making a personal attack that is unrelated to the president’s official responsibilities would not threaten to distract the president from his or her official duties,” Kaplan said.

 

[Twistinginthewind]

I saw the other day 45 said he is the only president not descended from slave owners.

AFAIK, his father was of Austrian descent (surname of Drumpf changed to Trump) and his mother is of Scottish descent.

If his descendants weren’t slave owners in the US, and that is unique for former presidents, one factor could be they were more recently arrived immigrants from less agrarian societies, compared to the long established British immigrants who were tobacco and cotton and indigo farmers who wouldn’t have been able to turn a profit without slavery.

I wonder what the point of that info was, just to state a fact? Or to try to demonstrate he’s cut from a different cloth than other former presidents?

MOO

 

[sds71]

Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports


News— The DOJ reverses itself in @EJeanCarroll v. Trump — deciding that the former president isn't entitled to Westfall Act immunity after all for his comments while in office.

The Justice Department explains why it "lacks adequate evidence to conclude" — under the legal guidance given to them by appellate courts — that Trump acted under the scope of his employment when he told reporters that Carroll wasn't his type.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.177.1.pdf

 

[musicaljoke]

Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports


News— The DOJ reverses itself in @EJeanCarroll v. Trump — deciding that the former president isn't entitled to Westfall Act immunity after all for his comments while in office.

The Justice Department explains why it "lacks adequate evidence to conclude" — under the legal guidance given to them by appellate courts — that Trump acted under the scope of his employment when he told reporters that Carroll wasn't his type.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.177.1.pdf

Is this something new? I thought this was established already.

 

[Cool Cats]

Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports


News— The DOJ reverses itself in @EJeanCarroll v. Trump — deciding that the former president isn't entitled to Westfall Act immunity after all for his comments while in office.

The Justice Department explains why it "lacks adequate evidence to conclude" — under the legal guidance given to them by appellate courts — that Trump acted under the scope of his employment when he told reporters that Carroll wasn't his type.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.177.1.pdf

Could someone explain this? Never heard of this.

 

[sds71]

The Department of Justice said in a court filing on Tuesday it can no longer conclude former President Trump was acting within the scope of office when he denied a writer's rape accusations and made allegedly defamatory remarks about her in 2019.

Why it matters: Trump previously attempted to delay proceedings for E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit over his remarks by arguing that he should be granted immunity because he made the comments at issue while speaking to the media as president.

• The Justice Department previously defended Trump in the lawsuit, arguing that the law governing tort lawsuits against public officials permitted its defending the former president in the case.
• Its reversal is a major blow to Trump's defense in the case and adds to the myriad legal perils already bearing down on the 2o24 presidential candidate.

What they're saying: “We are grateful that the Department of Justice has reconsidered its position," Robbie Kaplan, Carroll's attorney in the case, said in a statement on Tuesday.

• "We have always believed that Donald Trump made his defamatory statements about our client in June 2019 out of personal animus, ill will, and spite, and not as President of the United States."

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/11/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation-immunity

 

[JerseyGirl]

DOJ reversal could clear way for Carroll's 1st lawsuit against Trump to proceed

The DOJ says it's no longer claiming that Donald Trump was acting within the scope of his employment as president when he allegedly defamed E. Jean Carroll in 2019.

abcnews.go.com

The Justice Department said on Tuesday it was no longer claiming, under the Westfall Act, that former President Donald Trump was acting within the scope of his office and employment as president of the United States when he allegedly defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019.

Carroll's initial defamation lawsuit, filed in 2019, has been tied up in the courts over the question of whether Trump's denial of Carroll's rape claim was part of his official duties, as he argued.

The development, which could clear the way for Carroll's initial 2019 lawsuit against then-President Trump to proceed, came on the same day that Carroll's attorney argued for the dismissal of a counterclaim Trump filed against Carroll in a separate but related case.

Carroll's 2019 lawsuit is scheduled for trial in January.