A panel of three federal judges on Monday rejected president-elect Donald Trump’s appeal to overturn a 2023 civil trial verdict that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s. The judges rejected Trump’s request for a new trial and upheld the $5 million Trump owes Carroll in damages.
The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Trump “has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affect his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.”
A jury previously found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll at a department store in the ’90s. He was ordered to pay about $2 million for sexual abuse and another $3 million for defamation, based on Trump saying on social media in 2022 that Carroll’s allegations were a “complete con job”; he added that Carroll was “not my type.” Trump has denied he abused Carroll and told CNN last year he “never met her.”
Trump has also appealed the ruling in a separate civil trial that he owes Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her, based on other comments he made about the former Elle Magazine columnist. That appeal is still pending.
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