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☆ Trump's lawyers say his classified docs trial should be pushed back because he's too busy balancing his campaign schedule with all the indictments he's facing
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump's lawyers say his classified documents trial should be postponed until after the election. His lawyers argued it's hard for the former president to balance campaigning with all the indictments and lawsuits he's facing. If Judge Aileen Cannon — a Trump appointee — agrees, it could allow Trump to pardon himself in 2024 if he wins. They made the argument while appearing Tuesday before US District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, for a pretrial hearing. Trump is facing a slew of criminal indictments and civil lawsuits, which his defense lawyers said are clashing with his plans for the 2024 campaign trail.

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☆ Trump loses immunity in defamation lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsTrump loses immunity in defamation lawsuitPostedDonald Trump suffered a legal defeat on Tuesday as the U.S. government reversed its earlier position that the former president could be immune from the writer E. Jean Carroll's $10 million defamation lawsuit against him. Ryan Brooks reports.

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☆ DOJ won't defend Trump in Carroll rape defamation case anymore
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

That effort, if it had been approved, would have killed Carroll's lawsuit because the government can shield itself from civil liability under the doctrine of sovereign immunity. The DOJ had not played a role in that lawsuit, as the alleged actions occurred outside of Trump tenure in the White House. "We are grateful that the Department of Justice has reconsidered its position," Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement. "Now that one of the last obstacles has been removed, we look forward to trial in E Jean Carroll's original case in January 2024." The letter also said: "Moreover, the circumstantial evidence of Mr. Trump's subjective intent in making theallegedly defamatory statements does not support a determination in this case that he wassufficiently motivated by a desire to serve the United States Government."

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☆ Trump loses immunity in E. Jean Carroll case as Justice Department now says his comments weren't part of presidential role
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Justice Department is no longer defending Donald Trump in a lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll. But the Justice Department intervened. There is also the fact that the jury found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll well before he ever assumed office. "A jury has now found that Mr. Trump sexually assaulted Ms. Carroll long before he became President," Boynton wrote. While the jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll by inserting his fingers into her vagina, it didn't find him liable for rape.

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☆ Judge denies Trump's bid to dismiss E. Jean Carroll's first defamation lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

E. Jean Carroll exits the Manhattan Federal Court following the verdict in the civil rape accusation case against former U.S. President Donald Trump, in New York City, May 9, 2023. A federal judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's motion to dismiss the original civil defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, the writer who alleges the former president defamed her after she accused him of sexual assault. Trump's arguments for dismissing the case "are without merit," Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Roberta Kaplan, Carroll's attorney who is not related to the judge, said in a statement that the ruling shows Trump's defenses against the defamation claims "don't work." Two days earlier, Trump filed a counterclaim against Carroll in the same case, accusing her of defamation by continuing to publicly say he raped her.

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☆ Judge rejects Donald Trump bid to dismiss E. Jean Carroll's first defamation lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | Us Judge Facing Competency Probe Asks Court To Block Her Suspension | Blake Brittain | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] FILE PHOTO-Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends the Oakland County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Novi, Michigan, U.S. June 25, 2023. Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, said the decision "confirms that once again, Donald Trump's supposed defenses to E. Jean Carroll's defamation claims don't work." The judge also said Trump's criticism of Carroll went beyond "the outer perimeter of his official duties" as president. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is appealing the $5 million jury verdict. The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

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NEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) - Donald Trump will deposit $5.55 million with a federal court as security while the former U.S. president appeals a jury verdict that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll. Carroll would collect her $5 million if Trump's appeals, including potentially to the Supreme Court, were unsuccessful. Carroll's lawyers agreed to the $5.55 million deposit. She is also seeking punitive damages, after he repeated his denials in a CNN town hall one day after the jury verdict. The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

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NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday scheduled the writer E. Jean Carroll's second defamation trial against former U.S. President Donald Trump for next January. Last month, a Manhattan jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million for defamation and sexual assault in a separate lawsuit, after he made a similar denial in October 2022. On Tuesday, Judge Kaplan allowed Carroll to amend her lawsuit over Trump's 2019 comments to include similar comments he made recently on CNN. In a town hall the day after the $5 million verdict, Trump called Carroll's account "fake" and labeled her a "whack job." The case is Carroll v. Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

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☆ Trump just pleaded not guilty to the 37-count indictment against him. Here's what happens next.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Taylor Berman | Insider Staff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump pleaded not guilty to his 37-count indictment over mishandling classified documents. Special Counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor overseeing the case, promised he'd seek a "speedy trial" to bring Trump to justice. Once the parties have a good grasp on the material, Cannon will set a schedule for a motion to dismiss. Trump may not need to show up in court again until a trialIf the case does indeed go to trial, Trump will likely have to show up. Judge Juan Merchan, the New York state judge overseeing Trump's other case, has made clear he expects Trump to appear in person.

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NEW YORK, June 13 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday said E. Jean Carroll, the New York writer who last month won a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, can pursue a related $10 million defamation case against the former U.S. president. On May 9, a Manhattan jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $2 million for battery and $3 million for defamation over Trump's October 2022 denial. Carroll then sought to amend the defamation lawsuit she filed in 2019, after Trump told a White House reporter that the rape never happened and that Carroll was not his "type." A substitution would essentially end Carroll's $10 million lawsuit because the government cannot be sued for defamation. The case is Carroll v. Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

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☆ Judge grants E. Jean Carroll's request to amend $10 million complaint against Trump after CNN town hall remarks
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A federal judge Tuesday granted writer E. Jean Carroll's request to amend her original defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to include comments he made about her in a CNN town hall last month. The judge's decision was made public shortly after Trump pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges during a historic arraignment in Miami. Carroll sought to amend her lawsuit shortly after Trump unloaded a barrage of disparaging remarks about her during a live town hall on CNN on May 10. She filed a civil defamation lawsuit against him in 2019, and then filed a second civil lawsuit against him in 2022 that also included a charge of battery. Less than two weeks after the CNN town hall, Carroll's lawyers asked Judge Kaplan to let her amend her original civil complaint to include Trump's most recent comments, arguing that "the facts and circumstances have changed."

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☆ Trump fights to keep the word 'rape' in E. Jean Carroll's remaining defamation case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Carroll wants to amend her remaining lawsuit by removing the word 'rape' and adding new alleged defamations. Trump is now fighting these amendments, and demands the word 'rape' stay in the lawsuit. His lawyers plan to argue that since a jury has now rejected her rape claim, Trump rightfully called her a liar. Carroll's proposed amended complaint "substitutes every reference of the word 'rape' and replaces it with 'sexual assault,'" Trump attorney Alina Habba writes in the filing, addressed to US District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, the presiding judge for Carroll's two defamation suits. In that case, a federal jury in Manhattan found Trump indeed defamed and sexually abused Carroll and approved $5 million in damages.

☆ Michael Cohen is finally taking the Trump Organization to trial over unpaid legal bills in the Stormy Daniels saga
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Michael Cohen's lawsuit against the Trump Organization is headed to trial in two months. His entanglement in the Stormy Daniels saga, the Mueller investigation, and more all stemmed from his former Trump Organization role, he alleges. The Trump Organization owes him $2.3 million in legal fees for all those cases and investigations, he says. The trial would also happen on the heels of a Manhattan trial, in federal court, over E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against Trump. Attorneys for the Trump Organization and Cohen didn't immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

[1/2] Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts after arriving at Aberdeen International Airport in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain May 1, 2023. "That was a rigged election," Trump said, adding that anyone who thought otherwise was "stupid." Trump and Collins frequently spoke over each other with Collins challenging a number of the former president's false claims. "It was classic Trump - it was Donald Trump from 2015 right up until now: the Big Lie, the outrageous style, demeaning individuals, mocking them," said Rothenberg, senior editor at the Inside Elections newsletter. New Hampshire is an early nominating state that could prove critical in Trump's bid to win the November 2024 election.

☆ E. Jean Carroll's team wanted to dismiss a juror during the Trump sexual abuse and defamation trial who described Tim Pool's podcast as 'balanced'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New filings from E. Jean Carroll's case against Donald Trump reveal her team sought to dismiss a juror. On April 30, Carroll's team moved to dismiss Juror No. The juror was ultimately allowed to stay on after a judge rejected the request from Carroll's team, according to Politico. Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages for the sexual abuse and defamation claims. 77 was among the nine jurors who unanimously found Trump was liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of Carroll.

☆ E. Jean Carroll's lawyer said Trump 'was basically a witness against himself'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

E. Jean Carroll's lawyer said Donald Trump was "a witness against himself." A Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in 1996. "There's no question that both of those things helped our case," Kaplan said. In his deposition, Trump's comment came after he said anyone who is a "star" can largely get away with grabbing women. On Tuesday, a Manhattan jury unanimously found Trump liable of sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996.

☆ E. Jean Carroll's lawyer promised they'll make Trump pay up the $5 million she's owed — but wouldn't say how
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

E. Jean Carroll's lawyer promised Donald Trump will pay up the $5 million in damages he owes. A jury on Tuesday found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in 1996. Trump's lawyer in the case, Joe Tacopina, maintained that they plan to appeal the case and won't have to pay Carroll anything quite yet. A Manhattan jury on Tuesday found the former president liable of sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million total in damages.

☆ Events leading up to Donald Trump sexual abuse verdict
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

2021-September 2022 - Carroll's lawsuit is largely on hold while Trump appeals Kaplan's decision. Oct. 12, 2022 - Trump repeats his denials of Carroll's claims. Oct. 19, 2022 - Trump is deposed in Carroll's first lawsuit. March 28, 2023 - Kaplan rejects Trump's request to throw out the defamation claim in Carroll's second lawsuit. April 25, 2023 - Trial gets under way.

☆ That Access Hollywood tape is grabbing Trump by the credibility as the E. Jean Carroll rape trial nears its end
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump's 'Access Hollywood' tape is in evidence as deliberations begin Tuesday in his civil rape trial. Either way, the Access Hollywood tape — in which he bragged to TV personality Billy Bush about kissing women and grabbing them by the genitals — has been a major factor in the two-week trial. Trump himself has defended his remarks as "locker room talk," including in a videotaped trial deposition played for jurors last week. "Historically, that's true with stars," Trump said of the Access Hollywood tape, when asked about it by Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan. "They played that Access Hollywood tape how many times?"

☆ Why battery, not rape? E. Jean Carroll's own testimony against Donald Trump helps explain Manhattan verdict
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A federal jury in Manhattan found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll. That jury on Tuesday awarded her $5 million in damages, after finding Trump civilly liable for sexual battery, but not for rape. he asked Carroll. "We were basically the same height," Carroll told Tacopina during cross examination. "So you are saying," Tacopina asked, "that you got your knee up to his — it would be waist, as high as his waist?"

☆ Trump's friendship with Fox News founder Roger Ailes may have been his downfall in E. Jean Carroll trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Donald Trump continues to deny not knowing E. Jean Carroll, even after a jury found he sexually abused her. He also denied being friends with Roger Ailes at the time he was Carroll's boss in the 1990s. He was friends with Donald Trump," Carroll testified in the trial. Donald Trump on a November 1995 episode of Roger Ailes's talk show "Straightforward" on the America's Talking TV channel. "Because admitting that he knew Roger Ailes in the mid-1990s would be further proof that Donald Trump knew E. Jean Carroll."

Summary Trump's lawyer calls the case an 'affront to justice'Jury due to begin deliberations on TuesdayNEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's absence from a trial where writer E. Jean Carroll accuses him of rape and defamation shows that "he did it," a lawyer for Carroll said on Monday, while Trump's lawyer told jurors the case was "outrageous." "He never looked you in the eye and denied raping Ms. Carroll," lawyer Mike Ferrara told jurors as the civil trial in Manhattan federal court neared the end of an eighth day. Jurors also heard from two other women who said Trump sexually assaulted them in separate incidents decades ago. She said Carroll had been unable to sustain a romantic relationship since the alleged rape, and that Trump's public criticism had harmed her client's reputation. Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Will Dunham and Noeleen WalderOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Tears and laughter: Amid harrowing rape testimony, E. Jean Carroll joked of Trump, men, and three-bean salad
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

"I don't particularly like getting attention because I'm suing Donald Trump," she clarified, pausing a beat, then adding, "Getting attention for making a great three-bean salad? Trump told her he once considered buying Bergdorf Goodman, she told jurors. Tacopina asked Carroll. "So you joked around about having sex with Donald Trump for money in this Facebook post, correct?" Tacopina asked.

☆ Trump's rape trial defense? His accuser and her friends have Trump Derangement Syndrome
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Donald Trump's lawyers have tried to undermine E. Jean Carroll, who accuses him of rape. Just moments later, Trump's lawyers rested their case as well, without presenting any evidence. Carroll and her friends, Trump's lawyers suggest, all have Trump Derangement Syndrome. According to Trump's lawyers, the whole lawsuit is a conspiracy schemed up by ardent Trump critic George Conway. AP Photo/John MinchilloTrump's attorney pointed out that Birnbach had said Trump and his allies had symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

☆ Trump told a female lawyer 'you wouldn't be a choice of mine either' while explaining that his rape accuser is not his type
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Donald Trump told a female lawyer who was questioning him that he would never be interested in her. He made the comment after explaining that his rape accuser E. Jean Carroll was not his type. Trump was deposed for a rape and defamation lawsuit brought by Carroll. In the video, Trump denied raping Carroll and repeated his claim that she is not his "type." "I say this with as much respect as I can, she's not my type," Trump said.

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