Donald Trump is asking a judge to put E. Jean Carroll’s pending defamation suit against him on hold until an appeals court decides on his bid to have her suit tossed out.
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Trump has maintained that he has absolute presidential immunity from the pending case — which would get him off the hook legally — because he was in office when he said he never met Carroll and called her case a “hoax.” Donald Trump is asking a judge to pause E. Jean Carroll’s pending defamation lawsuit against him while he appeals a related ruling.In the other case, in May, a jury ordered Trump to pay $5 million in damages to Carroll, 79, finding him liable for sexually abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the 1990s and then defaming her with a lengthy October 2022 statement on his social media platform Truth Social.
“As such, we are seeking a stay of proceedings pending the Second Circuit’s adjudication of this issue,” Habba wrote.
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