The ruling called Trump’s conduct « extraordinary and unprecedented » as well as « reckless and indifferent. »
A federal appeals court in Manhattan declined to throw out an $83 million defamation judgment against President Donald Trump on Monday.
The 2024 judgment found that Trump defamed writer E. Jean Carroll while denying her allegations of rape. In 2019, the president said Carroll’s claims were “totally false” and made to promote her book. In 2023, Trump was found to be liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in a department store decades earlier. Carroll has won two defamation judgments against Trump for his repeated denials of the allegations.
The panel of judges for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found that the 2024 ruling against Trump was “fair and reasonable.
