Appeals court upholds $5 million award in sexual abuse verdict against President-elect Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : "In September, both Carroll, 81, and Trump, 78, attended oral arguments by the 2nd Circuit.
38% : Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesperson, said in a statement that Trump was elected by voters who delivered "an overwhelming mandate, and they demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded Carroll Hoax, which will continue to be appealed.
36% : The judge also had allowed the jury to view the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape 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.
33% : Trump testified for under 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 ever happened.
27% : In January, a second jury awarded Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages for comments Trump had made about her while he was president, finding that they were defamatory.
23% : Trump skipped the defamation and sex abuse trial after repeatedly denying the attack ever happened.
23% : The longtime magazine columnist had 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.
20% : That jury had been instructed by the judge to accept the first jury's finding that Trump had sexually abused Carroll.
20% : And 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% : Trump has denied those allegations too.
18% : "The first jury found in May 2023 that Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her with comments he made in October 2022.
17% : The second trial resulted from comments then-President Trump made in 2019 after Carroll first made the accusations publicly in a memoir.
17% : In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the appeals court rejected claims by Trump's lawyers that trial Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had made multiple decisions that spoiled the trial, including by permitting two other women who had 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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