U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Effort to Overturn Sexual Abuse Verdict
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December 31, 2024 Hour: 8:48 am
Writer E.J. Carroll alleged that the Republican politician raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s.
On Monday, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the rulings in a case of defamation and sexual abuse filed by writer Elizabeth Jean Carroll.
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“Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings… Trump has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial,” the Appeals Court stated.
In May 2023, a federal jury from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York awarded Carroll US$5 million in damages, including nearly US$3 million for defamation.
Previously, this jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll and then defamed her in 2022 for public statements he made disparaging her and denying the allegations.
The Republican politician appealed and contended that the district court erred in several of its evidentiary rulings and those asserted errors entitled him to a new trial.
Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleged that Trump raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim. Carroll came forward publicly in 2019 when an excerpt of her forthcoming book was released in a magazine.
Additionally, Trump should pay US$83.3 million to Carroll for defamatory statements he made against her in 2019, according to the verdict of a separate Manhattan federal jury in January 2024. Trump’s appeal of the later verdict is pending.
teleSUR/ JF Source: Xinhua
