Former President Donald Trump criticized the Department of Justice (DOJ) for reversing their position on whether he should have presidential immunity on comments he made regarding the defamation lawsuit against him by E. Jean Carroll.
On his Truth Social platform Wednesday, Mr. Trump referred to the DOJ’s refusal to grant presidential immunity as “horrible” before adding, “We are strongly appealing this travesty of justice!”
Ms. Carroll, an author, claims that Mr. Trump raped her in the mid-1990s at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York—an accusation Mr. Trump has refuted. As a result, in 2019 and 2022, Ms. Carroll filed lawsuits against him on charges of defamation and then battery and defamation, respectively….