A federal appeals court upheld a $5 million verdict for E. Jean Carroll in her case against Donald Trump, finding that a jury's decision was fair and supported by evidence of Trump's past sexual misconduct.
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5-million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump . A jury found the US president-elect liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the former magazine columnist.A unanimous three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Trump 's argument that the trial judge should not have let jurors hear evidence about the Republican's alleged past sexual misconduct, making the trial and verdict unfair.
The court said that evidence, including Trump bragging about his sexual prowess on an 'Access Hollywood' video that surfaced during the 2016 US presidential campaign, established a 'repeated, idiosyncratic pattern of conduct' consistent with Carroll's allegations. 'Taking the record as a whole and considering the strength of Ms. Carroll's case, we are not persuaded that any claimed error or combination of errors in the district court's evidentiary rulings affected Mr. Trump's substantial rights,' the court said in an unsigned decision.The May 2023 verdict stemmed from an incident around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan, where Carroll, now 81, said Trump raped her, and an October 2022 Truth Social post where Trump denied Carroll's claim as a hoax.Though jurors in federal court in Manhattan did not find that Trump, 78, committed rape, they awarded the former Elle magazine advice columnist $2.02 million for sexual assault and $2.98 million for defamation. 'Hoax,' Trump spokesperson saysA different jury ordered Trump in January to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her and damaging her reputation in June 2019, when he first denied her rape claim.In both denials, Trump said he did not know Carroll, she was 'not my type,' and that she fabricated the rape claim to promote her memoir
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