Appeals court tells Trump to kick rocks, they aren't throwing out the $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll verdict

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This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[Attilatheblond]

1. Well, the rapist's week is off to another great start

Hoping more courts turn their thumbs down to the blue pill tyrant wanna-bee

[Wednesdays]

2. Don't worry, SCOTUS will fix that.

[ZDU]

3. Thanatos awaits him

tock tick

[Ping Tung]

4. Can we shout "Lock Him Up!!" now?

[sheshe2]

5. Recommend

[Midnight Writer]

6. How is the rapist not winning? Has he paid a dime to E. Jean Carroll? Will he ever?

Now he will refuse to pay because he is President (or some other excuse). He will take it to court, again. He will "lose" and appeal again.

Nobody will force him to pay. He will delay this until we are all gone and buried.

I laugh when I see headlines that Trump just "lost" in court, just to keep from crying. He is not losing anything. He long ago learned that delay in the courts is his best friend. He plays the system like a fiddle.

I bet $100 that either E Jean Carroll or Trump Himself will die before she sees a dime from Donald Trump.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Trump has a bond up

EJ Carroll will get paid

[BoRaGard]

10. And he will whine whine whine like republicon sex criminal

[Submariner]

8. Justice Pubic's opinion will demonstrate the right of Cankles

to stick his hand down the pants of any woman anytime without fear of retribution. It will be added to the Bill of Rights, a right for the GOP politicians only, of course.

[BoRaGard]

9. G.O.P. sexual morals and ethics are worthy of Nero, not Christ

[Cha]

11. Well that's something! Keep it in the news, Traitor...

Right along with the Epstein Files.

TY

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12. Deadline: Legal Blog--Supreme Court is last stand in E. Jean Carroll's legal vindication against Trump

Trump recently signaled he’ll ask the Supreme Court to review his previous appeals court loss in the other Carroll case, where she won $5 million.

Will the right-wing Supreme Court majority rule that rape is fine if the rapist is a president and the president rapist should be allowed to defame his victims? Only time will tell.

Supreme Court is last stand in E. Jean Carroll's legal vindication against Trump www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-09-08T18:18:54.534Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/e-jean-carroll-defamation-trump-loses-83-million-rcna229822

In the first of two related cases that went to trial, a jury found Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation and awarded Carroll $5 million. The 2nd Circuit previously upheld those damages in the case in which Trump has a Supreme Court petition due Nov. 10.

In Monday’s ruling, the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit concluded that the five-figure damages “were reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts of this case.” The three-judge panel also rejected Trump’s arguments that the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling saves him and that the district judge who presided over the case made erroneous legal rulings.....

Monday’s decision involves the second of the two cases that went to trial, where a jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million for statements Trump made when he was still in office. The panel rejected his argument that the damages were excessive, reasoning that there was “ample evidence that Trump was recklessly indifferent to Carroll’s health and safety.” The panel noted that his statements “had a domino effect,” as Carroll “was subjected to ongoing and prolific harassment as a result of these statements, including a multitude of death threats and other threats of physical injury.”

Trump’s conduct “supports a significant punitive damages award — it involved malice and deceit, caused severe emotional injury, and continued over at least a five-year period,” the panel concluded.

The three judges on Monday’s panel were appointed by former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama. In the $5 million case that’s further along on appeal, Trump had asked the full 2nd Circuit to review the case before taking it to the Supreme Court. The full appeals court declined to do so, but two Trump appointees dissented while suggesting that Trump was treated unfairly. In his forthcoming petition to the justices in that case, his lawyers might seek to highlight that dissent to a likeminded Supreme Court majority. That’s all to say that in both Carroll cases, the appeals court’s rejections of Trump’s arguments might not be the final word.