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A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s verdict that found Donald Trump responsible for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, knocking the president-elect and leaving him in the lurch for the $5 million payment ordered by the government. sworn
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in an unsigned opinion Monday that Trump had failed to show “that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings” and ” he has not carried his burden of showing that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.”
A federal jury ordered former President Donald Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll more than $83 million in damages after she denied allegations that he raped her in the 1990s. (Getty Images)
The decision comes later a New York jury Last year, he held Trump responsible for sexually abusing Carroll, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, in a Bergdorf Goodman store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and for defaming her later when she present his story during his first term in office. .
In another case, Trump was also ordered by a jury to pay Carroll more than $80 million in damages for defamatory statements made in his first term in the White House, although he is appealing lation of the president-elect of this decision is still pending.
The decision was praised by Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan.
“Both E. Jean Carroll and I are pleased by today’s decision,” Kaplan said in a statement. “We thank the Second Circuit for its careful consideration of the parties’ arguments.”
Trump’s transition team quickly responded to the decision Monday, which they vowed to appeal. They also pointed to what they described as the “political weaponization” of the courts.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 09: Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan courthouse after a jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of sexually abusing her at a Manhattan department store in the 1990s on 9 of May 2023 in New York City. The jury awarded him $5 million in damages for his battery and defamation claims. Carroll has said she was raped by former President Trump, detailing the alleged assault in the mid-1990s. Trump had claimed the attack never happened and denied ever meeting her. He did not take the stand during the trial. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images))
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“The American people have re-elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate, and demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and the swift dismissal of all witch hunts, including the Carroll Hoax, funded by Democrats, which continue to be appealed,” Trump transition spokesman and new White House communications director Steven Cheung told Fox News on Monday.
“We look forward to uniting our country in the new administration as President Trump makes America great again,” Cheung added.
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