A federal appeals court rejected Donald Trump’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 Carroll’s claim that Trump defamed her when, as president, he denied her allegations of sexual assault. The appeals court also affirmed the lower court’s ruling that rejected Trump’s motion for summary judgement.

“This 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 (‘Defendant’) waived the defense of presidential immunity by failing to raise it as an affirmative defense in his answer to E. Jean Carroll’s (‘Plaintiff’s’) complaint, which alleged that Defendant defamed her by claiming that she had fabricated her account of Defendant sexually assaulting her in the mid1990s.,” the court ruled.

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    Actually, no.

    I’m giving Democrats proper credit for doing jack shit about it when we gave them power.

    I don’t differentiate between perpetrator and collaborator when the net result is the same.

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      Lmao, right, you’ll “give Dems credit” but clearly have no idea how our government works (hint: it’s not an empire and dems can’t magically decree laws)— for which you should blame the Republicans who keep slashing school budgets.

      But keep lying to yourself after I’ve proved you wrong. I’m bored and need a good laugh.

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        All you’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 doesn’t change anything.

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          I’ve proven you wrong with multiple sources while you’ve proven too dumb to know how our government works, lol

          Thanks for the entertainment!