
Donald Trump just hit another legal brick wall—and this one has “Department of Justice is not your cleanup crew” stamped all over it.
A federal appeals court has officially denied Trump’s latest attempt to wriggle free of his costly defamation loss to writer E. Jean Carroll. His maneuver? A Hail Mary-style motion invoking the Westfall Act, a law designed to protect federal employees, not shield ex-presidents from civil fallout over personal misconduct.