President-elect Donald Trump intends to appeal Monday's ruling upholding a $5 million judgment in the sexual assault case brought by former magazine journalist E. Jean Carroll, his spokesperson said. I made it.
“The American people must re-elect President Trump with overwhelming authority, immediately end the political weaponization of our judicial system, and immediately dismantle all Democrat-funded witch hunts, including the Carol Hoax. The appeal continues,” President Trump's communications director Stephen Chan said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We look forward to uniting the country with a new administration as President Trump Makes America Great Again.”
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied President Trump's request for a new trial. The court rejected his argument that the judge should not have admitted evidence such as the “Access Hollywood” tape that suggested Trump committed other sexual assaults.
“After considering the abuse of discretion, we conclude that Mr. Trump has not shown that the district court erred in any of its contested decisions,” the court said. held. “Furthermore, he bears the burden of showing that the alleged error, or combination of alleged errors, affected his substantive rights as required to justify a new trial. No.”
BREAKING: New York Federal Court of Appeals upholds E. Jean Carroll's decision against Donald Trump. https://t.co/rGR9PW45sk pic.twitter.com/cbMAMQFTgq
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 30, 2024
Mr. Trump can now appeal the decision to the Supreme Court or the entire Second Circuit. (Related: ABC News, George Stephanopoulos settles Trump defamation lawsuit, forces president-elect to pay $15 million)
In May 2023, a New York jury found Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation charges against Carroll, who accused him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996. was lowered.
President Trump is currently appealing the $83.3 million in additional damages that a jury awarded Carroll in a separate defamation case.
ABC News and host George Stephanopoulos reached a $15 million settlement earlier this month after Trump was sued for defamation. Stephanopoulos argued that Trump “was found by a jury to be responsible for rape,” but that the jury only found him responsible for sexual abuse.
The Supreme Court decided several cases related to Trump last year.
In July, after President Trump moved to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith's indictment on the basis of executive privilege, a majority of voters ruled that former presidents should be immune from criminal prosecution for official actions after taking office. It was determined that the charges would be exempted. Justices also ruled in March that Trump could not be removed from Colorado's 2024 election ballot.
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