Trump asks court to overturn $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict

by Dillon Burroughs

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President Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to reconsider a jury’s verdict in a New York case against him by E. Jean Carroll that resulted in $5 million in damages.

The legal move comes after Trump was turned down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit last month for a new trial.

A jury awarded Carroll $5 million in the 2023 case over claims that Trump sexually abused her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan in the 1990s. Another jury awarded her $83 million in damages last year for defamatory remarks about Carroll.

The case was previously appealed in September, with Trump speaking out against the ruling at the time on Truth Social.

“This is what various Legal Scholars and Experts, Brilliant Lawyers, and Highly Respected Journalists think of the Manhattan D.A. Hoax, where the Democrats, headed up by Comrade Kamala Harris, working directly with the DOJ (which they’re not supposed to be!), want to put a Former President of the United States, and the Leading Candidate for President, in PRISON,” he wrote.

“This is unheard of, there has never been anything like it in our Country, and they are doing it in a blatant and illegal attempt to ‘win’ an Election that, based on their results, should be ‘unwinnable,’ but I can’t talk about it because Judge Merchan has put an UnConstitutional Gag Order on me. Somehow it will ALL work out – I don’t know how, I don’t know why, I don’t know when, but it always does!” he added.

The legal effort also following a sentencing hearing last week in a New York case involving allegations of hush-money payments. Trump was unable to avoid the sentencing but was given no punishment during the sentencing.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued the court’s ruling to announce the decision that allowed the sentencing to proceed on Friday.

“The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is denied for … the following reasons,” the order said. “First, the alleged evidentiary violations at President-Elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal. 

“Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge’ after a brief virtual hearing.”

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