E. Jean Carroll
Role at the time: Respondent, in a brief filed by her lawyers at Kaplan Martin
Response to this claim
Trump's June 2019 statements denying E. Jean Carroll's allegation, made from the White House in response to press questions, were official acts protected by presidential immunity, and he never forfeited or waived that immunity.
“Nor should this Court grant certiorari to bail out this President from the consequences of his repeated litigation choices.”
Why we used this label
The reference point is Trump's June 2019 statements denying Carroll's allegation, which a jury found defamatory, and his bid to escape the $83.3 million judgment for them through presidential immunity or substitution of the United States as defendant. Carroll's brief describes the 2019 statements as false statements that maligned her character and threatened her safety, and opposes Trump's effort to avoid the judgment as a bid to be bailed out of his own litigation choices.