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The US federal appeals court upheld the ruling that Mr. Trump must pay former journalist Jean Carroll $5 million in a defamation lawsuit.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on December 30 upheld the ruling that Donald Trump must compensate E. Jean Carroll after a jury determined that Trump had sexually abused and defamed the former journalist.
In 2022, Carroll filed a lawsuit accusing Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan clothing store dressing room in 1996. She previously sued Trump for defamation, claiming she was "completely false" when she went public about the incident.
A Manhattan federal jury determined that Mr. Trump did not rape Ms. Carroll, but ordered him to pay $2.02 million in damages for sexual abuse and $2.98 million for defamation.
In addition to the $5 million verdict for Ms. Carroll, a separate Manhattan jury also ordered Mr. Trump to pay the former journalist a total of $83.3 million.
The settlement includes $65 million in compensation for Trump's malicious public comments about Carroll, $7.3 million in compensatory damages, and $11 million to restore the former journalist's reputation.
The US President-elect is appealing this ruling, so Mr. Trump's lawsuit against Ms. Carroll is still not over even though he has been elected US President.
Mr. Trump's lawyers have not commented on the ruling, and Ms. Carroll's side has not yet spoken out.
In 1997, former President Bill Clinton was also involved in a lawsuit and the US Supreme Court at that time ruled that sitting presidents do not enjoy immunity from civil lawsuits in federal court for events that occurred before their term or were not related to official acts.
TB (according to VnExpress)