Trump Denounces E. Jean Carroll After Court Upholds Verdict

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : "We look forward to uniting our country in the new administration as President Trump makes America great again.
64% : A photo has surfaced of Mr. Trump at an NBC party in the 1980s, chatting with Ms. Carroll in a group of four that included their then-spouses (in this case, Trump's first wife, Ivana), but Trump says he has met thousands of people in similar circumstances and has no memory of it.
58% : "During the nine-day trial, which took place in May 2023, Ms. Carroll testified that she randomly ran into Trump at Bergdorf Goodman, where she was shopping, and that he asked her to help him pick out a gift for a female friend (in 1996, he was in the end stages of his second marriage, to Marla Maples).
56% : During the recording, which leaked shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Trump boasts to the show's then-co-host, Billy Bush, in explicit terms, that women "allow" him to grope them because he's a "star.
49% : "It would cost Carroll a national reputation, and Trump has a global audience," her attorney Ms. Kaplan said during her closing argument.
46% : "Ms. Carroll, who is 81 years old and whose "Ask E. Jean" sex and romance column appeared in Elle magazine from 1993 through 2019, accused Trump of raping inside a dressing room on the lingerie floor of Bergdorf Goodman, the upscale Manhattan department store, sometime in the 1990s (one of Ms. Carroll's witnesses surmised the year was 1996), and of defaming her in 2022 when he called her a "wack job" and her allegations "a complete con job" and "a Hoax and a lie.
45% : "Leading the appeal for him was the attorney John Sauer, who represented Trump in the historic Trump v. United States case, which resulted in the Supreme Court's landmark ruling that former presidents are largely immune against prosecution for acts committed in service of their office.
44% : In 2019, shortly before the book was published, New York magazine published an excerpt of the alleged encounter between Ms. Carroll and Trump.
40% : A spokesperson for the once and future president vowed to continue appealing the judgment, the smaller of two verdicts against Trump in the long-running case.
37% : The New York Times reported, adding that "the post encouraged others to share the post 'if you want justice for Trump.'
36% : "Ms. Carroll's attorney, Ms. Kaplan, held that these testimonies proved an alleged pattern, where Trump would pleasantly talk with a woman and out of nowhere "pounce" on her.
35% : This enraged Trump.
34% : In another statement Trump said, "People have to be careful because they are playing a very dangerous game.
31% : In September, Trump challenged the $5 million civil verdict at the Second Circuit Federal Appeals Court, arguing that the trial judge at the New York district court, Lewis Kaplan, erred when he allowed evidence into the trial that prejudiced the jury against him.
30% : Trump testified and attended the proceedings, causing a ruckus, when he abruptly got up and left the courtroom during Ms. Kaplan's closing argument.
28% : "Last week, Trump shared a post from another user on his social media platform Truth Social that read, "Should a woman go to jail for falsely accusing a man for rape?"
28% : He described New York's penal code as outdated in its definition of rape, finding that Ms. Carroll's allegation that Trump had raped her was "substantially true.""The definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of 'rape' in common modern parlance, its definition in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes, and elsewhere," Judge Kaplan wrote in July 2023, concluding that the jury "implicitly found Mr. Trump did in fact digitally rape Ms. Carroll.
27% : In the other lawsuit, which went to in January, Ms. Carroll alleged Trump's initial statements, after the publication of her book excerpt in 2019, "shattered" her reputation, and incited death threats and harassment from Trump supporters which continue to this day.
25% : During the January trial Judge Kaplan did not allow Trump to deny Ms. Carroll's sexual assault allegations, saying they were settled fact due to the jury verdict in the May trial.
19% : A jury of six men and three women did not find Trump guilty of the rape charge, but held him liable for sexual abuse and for defaming the writer,by denying their encounter ever took place, effectively branding her as a liar.
19% : He ordered the parties to solely focus on the issue of defamation, with the assumption that Trump sexually abused Ms. Carroll.
18% : President Trump has declared his intention to continue his efforts to overturn what he called on Monday "the Carroll hoax" after a federal appeals court denied his appeal to toss out one of two verdicts in the two separate civil lawsuits brought against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll.
18% : "Trump denied the allegations and Ms. Carroll then sued him, twice.
18% : Trump has fiercely denied these allegations and repeatedly said, "I never met this woman in my life" and that she is not his "type."
18% : Mr. Sauer argued to the federal judges that two witness testimonies, given by Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, two women who claimed Trump also sexually assaulted them, should not have been accepted as evidence.
17% : Trump threatened her client, she argued and cited him.
13% : Ms. Carroll posed for the print cover wearing the dress she said she was wearing "23 years ago when Donald Trump attacked me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.
13% : "Steven Cheung, Trump's chief campaign spokesman, whom Trump has picked to be his White House communication's director, fired back in his own statement on Monday.
12% : Trump has called Judge Kaplan "a Clinton appointed, highly partisan, Trump Hating Judge" on social media.

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