Trump loses appeal in $5 million E. Jean Carroll case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Dressed in his trademark navy suit and bright red tie, Trump entered the courtroom and walked straight past Carroll, who was sitting in the front row of the public gallery.
37% : She added that Trump had refused to testify or even attend the trial despite being given the opportunity.
37% : In both denials, Trump said he didn't know Carroll, that she was 'not my type,' and that she made up her story to promote her memoir.
35% : His attorneys claimed the trial court erred by allowing in certain evidence such as the infamous Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump can be heard boasting about grabbing women's genitals, as well as testimony from other women who have accused him of sexual misconduct decades ago.
34% : In September, Trump appeared at the federal appeals court in New York as his lawyers fought to overturn the verdict.
27% : But Judge Chin asked if Trump 'put his hands up her skirt', wouldn't that count?
27% : A jury found that Trump was liable for sexually assaulting Carroll, a journalist, in the mid-1990s.
26% : The appeals court wrote in its opinion that Trump 'has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings.'
26% : Trump was separately found liable for defaming Carroll in a second trial that took place in January this year where a jury ordered him to pay her $83.3million for having defamed her and damaging her reputation in June 2019 after she first accused him of sexual assault .
25% : Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts earlier this year after a blockbuster trial.
21% : In May, the jury found that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll - but that there was not enough evidence to say he had sexually assaulted her.
20% : He accused her of making up the claims because of her 'significant political bias against him' and 'turned her allegations against (Trump) into a lifestyle and sought to monetize her allegations as much as possible'.
20% : Trump denies all the allegations.
18% : Trump has called the case the 'greatest witch hunt of all time' and slammed the verdict as a 'disgrace.'
17% : He contested the May 2023 verdict stemming from his alleged mid-1990s encounter with Carroll, who claimed Trump sexually assaulted her at Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room and later defamed her when he publicly denied her allegations .
17% : Sauer questioned US District Judge Lewis Kaplan's decision to allow the Access Hollywood tape and testimony from Jessica Leeds, who accused Trump of groping her on a plane in the late 1970s, to be heard as evidence.
16% : The panel of six men and three women also found that Trump injured advice columnist Carroll in a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996 and defamed her when he called her a liar, ordering him to pay a total of $5 million in damages.
16% : The lawyer also argued that Trump has a 'pattern' of attacking women that begins with 'pleasantly chatting' them up before suddenly 'pouncing' on them and subsequently trashing the women when he is accused.
10% : The filing stated: 'The improper verdict in this case is a gross miscarriage of justice, backed by political operatives long opposed to President Trump and his politics, based on false and unsupported claims.'In other legal filings, Trump's lawyers claimed the attack on Carroll 'never occurred'.

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