Trump Makes Another Presidential Immunity Defense Attempt in Defamation Case

Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll argued he had waived that defense.
Trump Makes Another Presidential Immunity Defense Attempt in Defamation Case
Left: President Donald Trump comes out of the Oval Office on Sept. 16, 2019. Right: E. Jean Carroll following her trial at Manhattan Federal Court in New York on May 8, 2023. Mandel Ngan, Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
Catherine Yang
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Attorneys for former President Donald Trump made yet another attempt at arguing that the former president has a “presidential immunity,” or “absolute immunity” as a U.S. Supreme Court decision came to describe it, in the defamation case against him brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.

Michael Madaio said they had “tried to raise presidential immunity three times and ... been rejected by the courts three times” already as judges heard arguments about whether presidential immunity was a defense that could be waived.

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