President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to reverse a jury’s decision from last year that found him to have sexually assaulted author E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s was denied by a federal appeals court on Monday.
The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that “Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings”
And therefore “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.”
In the civil case, the jury found that Trump made defamatory remarks about Carroll in 2022 and found him accountable.
For sexually assaulting her in a dressing room at a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman department shop in the mid-1990s. Carroll was given $5 million in damages by the jury.
In a separate civil lawsuit, another jury ruled that Trump must compensate Carroll, a former contributor for Elle magazine, with $83 million. Trump has yet to appeal that decision.
