Appeals court upholds verdict finding Trump liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll

A federal appeals court panel on Monday upheld a jury’s verdict finding President-elect Trump liable for sexually assaulting advice columnist E. Jean Carroll and ordering him to pay $5 million. 

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit concluded that Trump did not sufficiently show any claimed errors affected his rights or warranted a new trial.  

“On review for abuse of discretion, we conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings,” the panel wrote in its unsigned opinion. 

The New York jury found Trump liable last year for sexually abusing Carroll, an advice columnist, in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and defaming her by denying her story when she came forward during Trump’s presidency. 

In a separate case, a jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million in defamation damages for continuing to deny her story. Trump is still appealing that verdict. 

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