Trump said Carroll could pursue defamation suit "when the President is no longer in office"

E. Jean Carroll is urging the Supreme Court to reject President Donald Trump’s appeal of the $83.3 million defamation judgment tied to his 2019 denials of her abuse allegation. In a Friday filing, her lawyers cited a 2020 letter in which Trump, according to their brief, took the position that Carroll’s suit could continue after his term and that he was not attempting to dodge responsibility. They argue that stance, plus nearly three years of litigation before he first asserted presidential immunity in December 2022, means he forfeited that defense. Trump’s petition says the judgment improperly undercuts immunity for official acts. A separate 2023 jury found he sexually abused Carroll and awarded her $5 million; he later abandoned appeals of that verdict.