After losing a civil defamation case to writer E. Jean Carroll, Trump sought a new trial. A federal appeals court rejected his arguments.
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Court upholds verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s case against Trump: After losing a civil defamation case to E. Jean Carroll, the president-elect sought a new trial. A federal appeals court rejected Trump's arguments.
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Part of the problem with this is the fact that every jury who has considered Carroll’s claims has sided with her against Trump. Making the problem worse is the fact that Trump’s appeals aren’t going well, either. Reuters reported:
A federal appeals court on Monday 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. ... The May 2023 verdict stemmed from an incident around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan, where Carroll said Trump raped her, and an October 2022 Truth Social post where Trump denied Carroll’s claim as a hoax.
NBC News has confirmed the developments.
As my MSNBC colleague Clarissa-Jan Lim explained in September, Trump’s legal defense team sought a new trial, claiming that improper evidence was included in the initial civil case. That pitch proved unpersuasive to a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.
“We conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings,” the federal appellate bench concluded. “Further, he 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.”
Despite the juries’ findings, Trump has long insisted that he did nothing wrong, adding on multiple occasions that his accuser isn’t his “type.”
It’s possible that the president-elect and his attorneys will appeal their latest setback to the U.S. Supreme Court, though there’s no reason to assume the justices will take up the case. Watch this space.
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