Appeals court upholds $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict against Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

36% : The 2005 recording caught Trump on a hot mic bragging that he can grope women without their consent because "when you're a star, they let you do it.
30% : Trump did not testify or put on a defense case.
30% : Jessica Leeds alleged that Trump started to grope her out of the blue while they were sitting next to each other on a flight to New York in the late 1970s, while Natasha Stoynoff testified that Trump pushed her against a wall and started kissing her in 2005, when she was at his Mar-a-Lago resort to interview him and Melania Trump for a story on their first wedding anniversary.
30% : Trump is also appealing Carroll's $83 million defamation judgment against him in a separate but related case centering on defamatory comments he made about her while he was president and then after the $5 million verdict.
28% : Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, said in response to the ruling: "The American People have re-elected President Trump with 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.
22% : A jury had awarded Carroll the sum in 2023 after finding Trump liable for sexual abusing her in the 1990s and then defaming her after she went public with her allegations.
20% : Trump has denied the allegations and appealed the verdict, charging it was "grossly excessive" and should be tossed because of what he claimed were unfair rulings from the judge who presided over the nine-day trial.
20% : Trump has denied their allegations.
19% : "Carroll's suit alleged that Trump sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in 1996, and that he defamed her by calling her claim a "hoax" and a "con job" after he left office in 2021.
19% : That case was actually the first suit she filed against Trump, but the case was stalled while Trump argued his comments were protected by presidential immunity, a claim Kaplan rejected.
17% : His appeal focused on what he said were critical errors by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, including allowing testimony from two other women who claimed they'd been sexually accosted by Trump.

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