US appeals court denies challenge after 2023 civil jury trial found Trump sexually abused Carroll then defamed her

Donald Trump has lost his latest legal attempt to challenge the $5m in damages awarded against him for defaming E Jean Carroll, the New York writer who a jury found was sexually abused by the president in the 1990s, before he embarked on his political career.

A US appeals court in New York City on Friday denied Trump’s request to reconsider its decision in December to uphold the jury’s award of $5m to Carroll. The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting.

Carroll, a former magazine columnist, accused Trump of attacking her around 1996 in a department store dressing room in Manhattan. In 2023, a civil jury trial concluded that Trump did sexually abuse her and then defamed her in 2022 when he denied the allegations as a hoax and said that Carroll was “not my type”.

The jury awarded Carroll, who is now 81, a total of $5m in compensatory and punitive damages. More than two dozen different women have accused Trump over the past decade of sexual assault.

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[–] 85 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Better incite a pretend insurrection to distract everyone from his failures

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Like you've never had to buy an election because you were running from the law?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    And by failures you mean rapes and attempted cover-ups?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yes, this, and all his court losses and convictions as well.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Plus all the child-trafficking and cocaine money laundering.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    It would probably be shorter to list his successes. Because there really aren’t any.

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