US appeals court denies challenge after 2023 civil jury trial found Trump sexually abused Carroll then defamed her
Donald Trump has lost his latest legal attempt to challenge the $5m in damages awarded against him for defaming E Jean Carroll, the New York writer who a jury found was sexually abused by the president in the 1990s, before he embarked on his political career.
A US appeals court in New York City on Friday denied Trump’s request to reconsider its decision in December to uphold the jury’s award of $5m to Carroll. The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting.
Carroll, a former magazine columnist, accused Trump of attacking her around 1996 in a department store dressing room in Manhattan. In 2023, a civil jury trial concluded that Trump did sexually abuse her and then defamed her in 2022 when he denied the allegations as a hoax and said that Carroll was “not my type”.
The jury awarded Carroll, who is now 81, a total of $5m in compensatory and punitive damages. More than two dozen different women have accused Trump over the past decade of sexual assault.
25 Comments
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 85 pts · 1y
Better incite a pretend insurrection to distract everyone from his failures
liverbe@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y
Like you've never had to buy an election because you were running from the law?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y
I mean, we've all been there...
hemmes@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I hate when I’ve been definitively proven guilty of being a sex predator and can’t slander and sue my way out it, soooo annoying
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y
And by failures you mean rapes and attempted cover-ups?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y
Yes, this, and all his court losses and convictions as well.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Plus all the child-trafficking and cocaine money laundering.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
It would probably be shorter to list his successes. Because there really aren’t any.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Failing up?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
You might say that’s the thing he is best at in life.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
It's not his fault: he has been suffering from life-long affluenza. It's a terrible sickness that quickly eats away the parts of the brain regulating ethical behavior. He can't help himself!
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 28 pts · 1y
Time to launch an other crypto !
AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
super shitty, but i see how this will not affect trump at all.
floo@retrolemmy.com · 14 pts · 1y
AlexLost@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
Who keeps hearing these cases?! What a fucking joke, apparently money makes you innocent of all crimes until it runs out?!
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
A sane criminal would gladly pay 0.01% of their net worth and move on.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
A Trump never pays their bills...ever
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y
What are they gonna do, take it to court?
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
Trump still has the option to bring it to the Sycophantic Court of the United States.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
I thought Jean was already paid?
SulaymanF@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
It was delayed by appeals.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 1y
Also he has literally no reason to pay her and will never face a single consequence for it.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
In a just world they would be disbarred
EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space · 4 pts · 1y
That's not how you spell executed.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
You ever sort articles by title, and see that a whole colostomy bag full of titles start with "Trump Fails?"