A trial is scheduled to begin next week. His attorneys have suggested appealing to the Supreme Court
Donald Trump lost yet another attempt to avoid a trial stemming from a defamation lawsuit from E Jean Carroll, after a federal appeals court panel in New York refused to rehear his “immunity” defence one week before the trial is set to begin.
A single-page order from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday declined to hear his request for the case to be heard in front of the court’s full 13-member panel. Mr Trump’s next option is to appeal to the US Supreme Court.
The trial is scheduled to begin in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on 15 January.
A federal jury already awarded Ms Carroll $5m earlier last year after finding Mr Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. A second trial from another lawsuit is set to determine how much more he owes for denying her allegations while he was in office.
The same could be said about practically all of the news today…
Web 2.0 has given us all the freedom to express ourselves with little if any consequences. A story or “well crafted” headline can easily entice us to spend moments at our keyboards doing what humans do - communicate ideas. Prior to this, the story was one-sided. “The News” - broadcast news, newspapers, periodicals; was all there was. There was no feedback or input from the people unless it was explicitly sought out. Now, The News knows precisely what generates our attention so they can double down on those stories to increase profitability rather than ‘inform the public as the fourth pillar of democracy’.
As critical our founding fathers thought journalism was to be, allowing such an industry to be privately owned and influenced most heavily by the attention a community gives it seems to be in conflict with its intention.
That’s to say, "the establishment that keep taking him seriously and shoving him into our faces " is just the result of an industry that shows content in order to increase advertising revenue. This isn’t going to end.
It’s not even the only Trump immunity hearing going on today!
Assume Trump prevails. If a President can do anything without being held liable, and carry that immunity for life, what would stop Dark Brandon from clearing the field of Presidential candidates, the Senate, the House, SCOTUS, and both Fox and OAN for good measure? They really haven’t thought this through.
I’m sure Trump has, but he is looking at life in a cell, and he’ll gladly roll the dice on every life but his own to stay out of one.
All good but just one thing…media has been privately owned forever. NPR and other such independent broadcasting and news generators are public but they are rare compared to the numbers of privately owned media. The problem you might be meaning to bring up is that almost all of the media is privately owned by the same person/company.