纽约的一家联邦上诉法院周一维持了原判8330万美元的判决因2019年诽谤前杂志专栏作家E. Jean Carroll而强加于唐纳德·特朗普总统。
“特朗普未能找到任何理由来重新考虑我们之前对总统豁免权的持有。我们还得出结论，地区法院在任何受到质疑的裁决中都没有错误，陪审团的损害赔偿裁决是公平合理的，”该意见称。
特朗普去年被判向前《Elle》杂志专栏作家卡罗尔支付8330万美元的赔偿金在2019年诽谤她当时他否认在20世纪90年代在曼哈顿百货公司的更衣室里对她进行了性虐待。
美国第二巡回上诉法院周一驳回了特朗普的论点，即他是享有总统豁免权当他发表关于卡罗尔的声明时。上诉法院还驳回了特朗普的论点，即陪审团的损害赔偿额过高。
三名法官组成的陪审团裁定“特朗普的行为至少是不顾事实的”，当时他称卡罗尔是个骗子，并说她不是他喜欢的类型。陪审团认为判给卡罗尔1830万美元的赔偿金是公平的。
“在川普发布他的声明后，卡罗尔在推特、脸书和电子邮件上受到了持续不断的攻击。川普的声明被8580万至1.04亿人浏览。她收到了数千次这样的攻击，包括数百次死亡威胁，”意见说。
该小组还驳回了特朗普的论点，即6500万美元的惩罚性赔偿金额严重过高。
“有充分的证据表明，特朗普对卡罗尔的健康和安全漠不关心，”该意见称。“此外，特朗普对卡罗尔的攻击不是孤立的;相反，在近五年的诉讼悬而未决期间，它们一直在继续，随着审判的临近，变得更加极端和频繁。”
卡罗尔的律师罗伯塔·卡普兰。在裁决后的一份声明中说，上诉法院确认“e·让·卡罗尔说的是实话，唐纳德·特朗普总统没有。”
“法院还维持了8330万美元的损害赔偿，因为，除其他外...声明称，她“受到了大量死亡威胁和其他身体伤害威胁”。“我们期待上诉程序的结束，以便正义最终得到伸张。”
2023年，一个陪审团在一次单独的审判中认定特朗普应对袭击负责，并判给卡罗尔500万美元的赔偿金因为殴打和在2022年的社交媒体帖子中诽谤她，称他们是“骗局和谎言”
同一上诉法院驳回了他对该判决的上诉。
Appeals court upholds $83 million judgment against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll
A federal appeals court in New York on Monday upheld the$83.3 million judgmentimposed on President Donald Trump for defaming former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in 2019.
"Trump has failed to identify any grounds that would warrant reconsidering our prior holding on presidential immunity. We also conclude that the district court did not err in any of the challenged rulings and that the jury's damages awards are fair and reasonable," the opinion said.
Trump last year was ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, fordefaming her in 2019when he denied sexually abusing her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday rejected Trump's argument that he wasentitled to presidential immunitywhen he made the statements about Carroll. The appellate court also rejected Trump's argument the jury's damages were excessive.
The three-judge panel decided "Trump acted with, at a minimum, reckless disregard for the truth" when he called Carroll a liar and said she's not his type. The panel said the $18.3 million the jury awarded Carroll in compensatory damages was fair.
"After Trump released his statements, which were viewed by between 85.8 to 104 million people, Carroll was instantly and continuously attacked on Twitter and Facebook and in emails. She received thousands of such attacks, including hundreds of death threats," the opinion said.
The panel also rejected Trump's argument the punitive damage award of $65 million was grossly excessive.
"There was ample evidence that Trump was recklessly indifferent to Carroll's health and safety," the opinion said. "Moreover, Trump's attacks against Carroll were not isolated; rather, they continued throughout the pendency of the nearly five-year litigation and became more extreme and frequent as the trial approached."
Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan. said in a statement following the ruling that the appeal court affirmed that "E. Jean Carroll was telling the truth, and that President Donald Trump was not."
"The Court also upheld the $83.3 million award of damages because, among other things ... she 'was subjected to a multitude of death threats and other threats of physical injury,'" the statement said. "We look forward to an end to the appellate process so that justice will finally be done."
In 2023, a jury in a separate trial found Trump liable for the attack and awarded Carroll$5 million in damagesfor battery and for defaming her in a 2022 social media post by calling them "a Hoax and a lie."
The same court of appeals rejected his appeal of that judgment.
