A jury last year ordered Trump to pay the columnist $83 million in damages.

American taxpayers will not be paying for the ongoing appeal of Donald Trump’s $83 million defamation case, a federal appeals court determined on Wednesday.

A panel of judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied Trump’s request to have Justice Department lawyers argue in his appeal of columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Trump.

A New York jury last year ordered Trump to pay the former Elle magazine columnist $83.3 million in damages for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her accusation that he sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. Trump has denied all allegations.

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    2 months ago

    As though he or his admin will follow the rulings of judges. Ha, whatever, Judge. Get fucked. -Trumpers

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      2 months ago

      Doesn’t work in a courtroom. The judge can say ‘who the fuck are you?’ and dismiss any DoJ staff attempting to practice civil law.

      Especially when this is an appeal, and the default is: okay, play stupid games, nothing changes. Pay the woman.