September 8 (UPI) – A federal court again rejected an appeal from US President Donald Trump on Monday in the defamation verdict of $ 83 million against the writer E. Jean Carroll.
Carroll’s lawyer told the 2nd United States Court of Appeal in Manhattan that “the president is not above the law” while Trump’s legal team argued that the Carroll verdict should be launched because it “seriously damages the presidency”, adding that it was “a great mower”.
On Monday, the unanimous unsigned decision of the panel of three judges concluded that Trump had “failed to identify the reasons which would justify reconsidering our previous detention on presidential immunity”.
Carrol won him a defamation judgment of $ 83.3 million against Trump in 2023, as well as a civil verdict, that he sexually abused her in a New York City store after a jury found Trump responsible for battery and defamation.
Trump, on the other hand, has long denied the allegations of Carroll.
Monday’s decision was the third and most recent appeal rejection of many this year for Trump in January and recently in June.
“We also conclude that the district court did not make any error in any of the disputed decisions and that the jury’s damages are just and reasonable,” added the decision of the Court of Appeal.
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