Source: USA Today
by Sara Pequeño
“A U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 8 declined to throw out a case that found Trump owes writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million over comments he made disputing the veracity of her sexual assault claims. The three-judge panel ruled that presidential immunity does not protect him, and that a lower court did not err in how it handled the case. The revelations about Trump’s sexual abuse and the subsequent court rulings in Carroll’s favor should be shocking. For any other president, this would be damaging. Yet we’re nearly a decade into Trump’s rise to political power, and nothing about this is surprising. We’ve become so numb to his indiscretions that we are now OK with the most powerful elected official in our country being an adjudicated sexual abuser.” (09/10/25)