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A federal appeals court affirmed judgment against Donald Trump after challenging a jury verdict that found him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming a former magazine writer.
Monday’s decision by a three-judge panel of New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals after the May 2023 ruling. It’s Jean Carroll 5 million dollars for former presidentcontinuously slanders, denying claims that he sexually assaulted her in a department store in 1996.
In January, a second jury was impaneled in a separate trial Trump to pay Carol more than 83 million dollars in damages for his defamatory statements about the former Ella magazine writer.
Trump argued that the verdict in the 2023 verdict should be thrown out based on his claims that the trial judge should not have allowed jurors to hear testimony from two other women who accused him of sexual misconduct.
One of those women, Jessica Leeds, testified about it Trump groped her on a plane in late 1970s. Second wife, ex People magazine writer Natasha Stoynoff, Trump said he kissed violently at Mar-a-Lago in 2005.
Trump’s lawyers also said jurors should not have heard his comments about the so-called Access Hollywood tape, in which the president-elect brags about grabbing female genitalia.
“Trump has not shown that the district court erred in any of the challenged judgments, and Trump has “not met his burden of showing that any asserted error or combination of asserted errors affected his substantial rights necessary to warrant a new trial,” the appeal the judges wrote in their decision on Monday.
This is a developing story