A three-judge jury in New York also rejected the president-elect’s request for a new trial.
A US federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury verdict that ordered President-elect Donald Trump to pay five million dollars for sexual abuse and defamation of former columnist E. Jean Carroll. TASR writes about it according to reports from Reuters and AFP and The Guardian.
A three-judge panel of the New York Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Trump’s challenges to the outcome of last year’s trial and his request for a new trial. The court said the evidence against Trump showed a “repeated, distinctive pattern of behavior” that matched Carroll’s claims.
“We conclude that Mr. Trump has failed to demonstrate error by the circuit court in any of the challenged decisions…Furthermore, he has failed to show that any alleged error or combination of alleged errors substantially affected his rights, which is necessary to open a new trial,” they said. judges.
He has to pay a fine
Last May, the court found Trump guilty of sexually assaulting Carroll in 1996 at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, for which he was ordered to pay two million dollars. He received a fine worth another three million for slandering her on social networks in October 2022. Trump denied all the charges and appealed against the sentence.
Another jury in a separate trial ordered Trump to pay an $83 million fine in January of this year for defaming Carroll and damaging her reputation in June 2019 when he first denied her rape allegations. According to Reuters, he claimed that Carroll made everything up to promote her memoir. He also appealed against this judgment.
