Trump Loses Appeal of E. Jean Carroll Verdict, $5 Million Damage Award Upheld

The president-elect had been looking for a new trial before he took office

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, looks one during a campaign rally at The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas on September 13, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, looks on during a campaign rally at The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas on Sept. 13, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

A panel of three federal judges on Monday rejected president-elect Donald Trump’s appeal to overturn a 2023 civil trial verdict that he was liable for sexually abusing and defaming 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.”

Trump’s attorneys had argued in their appeal that the court initially propped up Carroll’s “empty ‘he said, she said’ case with highly inflammatory, inadmissible evidence,” like the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape where he said “you can do anything” as a star, including grabbing women “by the p—-.”

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