A U.S federal appeals court on Monday upheld a civil juris’s finding that U.S President Donald Trump must pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll for his repeated social attacks and public statements against the longtime advice columnist after she accused him of sexu@l assault.
The 2nd U.S Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump’s appeal of the defamation award. Calling the jury’s damages awards “fair and reasonable”.
A three-judge panel citing hundreds of death threats Carroll faced, said the case record supported the trial judge’s ‘determination that ‘the degree of reprehesibility of Mr. Trump’s conduct was was remarkably high, perhaps unprecedented”
Trump had argued that the damage were unreasonable excessive, particularly a $65 million punitive damage awards, and pushed for a new trial after the Supreme Court expanded presidential immunity.
-9News Nigeria.
