'Has not carried his burden': Trump loses appeal of $5M E. Jean Carroll defamation ruling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : The case ended in a $5 million damages award, which Trump appealed, alleging that U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan "erred" in rulings regarding certain evidence.
25% : "As Law&Crime has previously reported, a civil jury in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s and for defaming her when denying the allegations decades later while president.
24% : The New York jury had found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the dressing room of New York City department store Bergdorf Goodman sometime in the late 1990s -- and later defamed her when denying both the allegations and that he ever knew her.
24% : Trump also objected to Kaplan's decision to allow the jury to hear the audio recording of what is now known as the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump is heard describing to TV host Billy Bush how he would grab women by their genitals without their consent and kiss them.
24% : "Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to Law&Crime's request for comment on the ruling.
11% : A federal appeals court has upheld the multimillion-dollar award granted to writer E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case against Donald Trump.
9% : Leeds had described in a deposition Trump's alleged sexual assault of her on an airplane in the 1970s, while Stoynoff, a writer and journalist, alleged that Trump had assaulted her in 2005 when she was at Mar-a-Lago to interview him and his wife, Melania Trump.
6% : Trump argued that this evidence was "proof that a billionaire critic of President Trump had paid [Ms. Carroll's] legal fees, and that [Ms. Carroll] lied about the funding during her deposition," and that he should be allowed to use it to attack Carroll's credibility.
5% : Specifically, Trump argued to the appeals court judges, Kaplan should not have allowed jurors to hear testimony from two women, Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, who said that Trump had sexually assaulted them.

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