“A jury concluded that $88 million would be enough to deter Trump from further defaming E. Jean Carroll,” said one legal observer. “I have my doubts.” A jury in New York City on Friday awarded E. Jean Carroll an $83.3 million judgment to be paid by Donald Trump for defaming her publicly on multiple occasions regarding rape […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, the leading 2024 Republican presidential contender, briefly took the witness stand Thursday at a New York trial to defend himself against allegations that he defamed writer E. Jean Carroll by disparaging her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Trump testified that […]
“Speculating that the GOP is blocking border security legislation to help Trump win the election would sound like a crazy conspiracy theory but it’s literally what the Republicans are saying is happening.” Critics have long argued that Republicans are interested only in using immigration—and increasingly hysterical claims of a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border—as a political cudgel, and not […]
Writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against former U.S. President Donald Trump was suspended Monday after one of the jurors called in sick. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told lawyers for Carroll and Trump that one of the nine jurors hearing the case was on his way to court when he began to feel flulike […]