A federal appeals court rejected Donald Trumpā€™s use of presidential immunity in a bid to dismiss a civil defamation lawsuit brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.

The judges found that Trump waived using presidential immunity as a defense by not raising it earlier in the litigation over Carrollā€™s claim that Trump defamed her when, as president, he denied her allegations of sexual assault. The appeals court also affirmed the lower courtā€™s ruling that rejected Trumpā€™s motion for summary judgement.

ā€œThis case presents a vexing question of first impression: whether presidential immunity is waivable. We answer in the affirmative and further hold that Donald J. Trump (ā€˜Defendantā€™) waived the defense of presidential immunity by failing to raise it as an affirmative defense in his answer to E. Jean Carrollā€™s (ā€˜Plaintiffā€™sā€™) complaint, which alleged that Defendant defamed her by claiming that she had fabricated her account of Defendant sexually assaulting her in the mid1990s.,ā€ the court ruled.

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    11 months ago

    Lmao, right, youā€™ll ā€œgive Dems creditā€ but clearly have no idea how our government works (hint: itā€™s not an empire and dems canā€™t magically decree laws)ā€” for which you should blame the Republicans who keep slashing school budgets.

    But keep lying to yourself after Iā€™ve proved you wrong. Iā€™m bored and need a good laugh.ļæ¼

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      11 months ago

      All youā€™ve done is make the same excuses Democrats do, and yet, you still expect me to vote for them after doing so.

      No wonder people think voting doesnā€™t change anything.

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        11 months ago

        Iā€™ve proven you wrong with multiple sources while youā€™ve proven too dumb to know how our government works, lol

        Thanks for the entertainment!