Donald Trump is fighting an $83.3 million jury verdict for defaming E. Jean Carroll, with his legal team arguing that recent Supreme Court rulings on presidential immunity could nullify the damages. After a jury found Trump liable for defamation related to Carroll's accusation of sexual assault, his lawyers contend that he forfeited the right to argue immunity earlier. They assert that the Supreme Court's expanded view of presidential immunity should protect Trump in this civil suit, despite previous rulings that stated otherwise.
"Presidential immunity - even if it could be waived at all, which is not the case - cannot be inadvertently forfeited," Trump's lawyers argued in their appeal brief for the Carroll case.
A federal appeals court will weigh a question important to Donald Trump on Tuesday morning: Can presidential immunity save him $83.3 million?
Before the trial, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump had forfeited the right to argue he had presidential immunity in the civil case because he waited too long to bring it up.
According to a Forbes estimate, Trump's net worth is $5.2 billion. It's boomed since he won the 2024 presidential election thanks to his ownership of Truth Social and numerous crypto investments.
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