Court upholds verdict against Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesperson, said in a statement that Trump will appeal.
45% : "In September, both Carroll, 81, and Trump, 78, attended oral arguments before the 2nd Circuit.
40% : The judge also allowed the jury to view the infamous "Access Hollywood" recording in which Trump boasted in 2005 about grabbing women's genitals because when someone is a star, "you can do anything.""We conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings," the 2nd Circuit said.
31% : Trump testified for less than three minutes at the second trial and was not permitted to challenge conclusions reached by the May 2023 jury.
30% : Trump skipped the trial after repeatedly denying the attack happened.
25% : In January, a second jury awarded Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages for comments Trump made about her while he was president, finding that they were defamatory.
23% : Trump denies those allegations too.
22% : The longtime magazine columnist testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack after they playfully entered the store's dressing room.
22% : The attorney said the judge also should have excluded the testimony of the two women who said Trump committed similar acts of sex abuse against them in the 1970s and in 2005.
20% : The first jury found in May 2023 that Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her with comments he made in October 2022.
19% : The judge instructed that jury to accept the first jury's finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll.
17% : The second trial resulted from comments then-President Trump made in 2019 after Carroll first made the accusations publicly in a memoir.
15% : A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury's finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
15% : In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the appeals court rejected claims by Trump's lawyers that trial Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made decisions that spoiled the trial, including by permitting two other women who accused Trump of sexually abusing them to testify.
9% : During appeals arguments in September, Trump lawyer D. John Sauer said testimony from witnesses who recalled Carroll telling them about the 1996 encounter with Trump immediately afterward was improper because the witnesses had "egregious bias" against Trump.

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