A trial is scheduled to begin next week. His attorneys have suggested appealing to the Supreme Court
Donald Trump lost yet another attempt to avoid a trial stemming from a defamation lawsuit from E Jean Carroll, after a federal appeals court panel in New York refused to rehear his “immunity” defence one week before the trial is set to begin.
A single-page order from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday declined to hear his request for the case to be heard in front of the court’s full 13-member panel. Mr Trump’s next option is to appeal to the US Supreme Court.
The trial is scheduled to begin in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on 15 January.
A federal jury already awarded Ms Carroll $5m earlier last year after finding Mr Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. A second trial from another lawsuit is set to determine how much more he owes for denying her allegations while he was in office.
It’s not even the only Trump immunity hearing going on today!
Assume Trump prevails. If a President can do anything without being held liable, and carry that immunity for life, what would stop Dark Brandon from clearing the field of Presidential candidates, the Senate, the House, SCOTUS, and both Fox and OAN for good measure? They really haven’t thought this through.
I’m sure Trump has, but he is looking at life in a cell, and he’ll gladly roll the dice on every life but his own to stay out of one.