Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict | World News
E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court, in New York. (AP)
US President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s verdict in a $5 million civil lawsuit wherein it was found that president sexually abused and defamed magazine column E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, AP reported.
In a filing before the apex court on Monday, Trump’s lawyers argued that allegations leading to a verdict the jury in the $5 million civil case were “propped up” a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propensity evidence” against him.
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In 2024, a federal appeal’s court upheld the $5 million verdict a jury related to sexual abuse and defamation allegation made against President Trump writer Carroll, ruling that the trial judge did not make any error in judgement that warrants for a new trial. In June, Trump also lost an effort to have the appeal reviewed a full bench, CNN reported.
The Trump adminration argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the civil trial, made several errors in judgement, including to allow the jury to hear two women’s testimony who alleged that Trump sexually assaulted them years ago.
During a trial in 2023, Carroll, a longtime advice column and former TV talk show host, claimed that Trump violently attacked her in a dressing room in 1996 at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury retailer across the street from Trump Tower. Trump denied the allegations and made comments against Carroll in October 2022, which the jury considered as liable for defaming the column.
“President Trump has clearly and consently denied that this supposed incident ever occurred. No physical or DNA evidence corroborates Carroll’s story. There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation,” Trump’s lawyers St. Louis, Missouri-based attorney Justin D. Smith wrote.
(with inputs from Associated Press)
