Appeals Court Upholds Verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s $5 Million Defamation Against the Adjudicated Sexaul Assaulter, Trump

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. president-elect liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the former magazine columnist.

Summary:

  • Trump challenged several rulings by judge
  • Jury also found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll
  • Different jury held Trump liable to pay $83.3 million

Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for Carroll did not immediately respond to a similar request.

Trump’s lawyers argued the $5 million verdict should be thrown out because the trial judge, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, should not have let jurors hear testimony from two other women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct.

One, businesswoman Jessica Leeds, said Trump groped her on a plane in the late 1970s. The other, former People magazine writer, Natasha Stoynoff, said Trump forcibly kissed her at his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2005.

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