Donald Trump seeks to pause E. Jean Carroll’s other defamation caseBy Priscilla DeGregory
July 28, 2023
Donald Trump is asking a judge to put E. Jean Carroll’s pending defamation suit against him on hold until an appeals court decides on his bid to have her suit tossed out.
The embattled former president — who was found liable for sexual abuse and other defamation claims involving Carroll in May — still faces the “Ask E. Jean” advice columnist’s original defamation lawsuit alleging that Trump, 77, defamed her in 2019 when she went public with her accusations.
Trump last month lost his attempt to have Carroll’s pending lawsuit dismissed, so he is now asking Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan to pause the case while he appeals the judge’s ruling.
Trump has maintained that he has absolute presidential immunity from the pending case — which would get him off the hook legally — because he was in office when he said he never met Carroll and called her case a “hoax.”
In Kaplan’s decision rejecting that argument, the jurist stated that immunity is meant to keep a president from being distracted from the duties of the position — “not a ‘get out of damages liability free’ card.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/28/donald-trump-seeks-to-pause-e-jean-carrolls-other-defamation-case/
