Prelude to the Best Sommelier of Canada Contest | SaltWireNEW YORK - A federal appeals court on Monday questioned why former U.S. president Donald Trump waited more than three years to claim that he deserved absolute immunity from a defamation lawsuit by writer E. Jean Carroll for denying that he raped her.
Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, sued Trump in November 2019 over his denial five months earlier that he had raped her in a midtown Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump, who was president in 2019, said Carroll was"not my type" and suggested that she made up the rape claim to boost sales of her forthcoming memoir.
On May 9, another jury awarded Carroll $5 million for sexual assault and defamation, though not rape, after Trump last October again denied that the rape occurred. Trump is also appealing that verdict. Circuit Judge Denny Chin questioned why Trump waited until December 2022 to claim immunity, even as the former president raised other defenses, after both sides had gathered evidence.
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