Trump loses appeal of E. Jean Carroll $5 million defamation, sexual...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : One, businesswoman Jessica Leeds, said Trump groped her on a plane in the late 1970s.
47% : The other, former People magazine writer, Natasha Stoynoff, said Trump forcibly kissed her at his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2005.
41% : EVIDENCE SHOWED A 'PATTERN'Carroll's cases are continuing despite Trump's having won a second four-year White House term on Nov. 5.
28% : A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. president-elect liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the former magazine columnist.
27% : Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
27% : In both denials, Trump said he did not know Carroll, she was "not my type," and that she fabricated the rape claim to promote her memoir.
24% : A different jury ordered Trump in January to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her and damaging her reputation in June 2019, when he first denied her rape claim.
16% : Trump's lawyers also said the trial judge should not have let jurors watch the 2005 "Access Hollywood" video, where Trump boasted graphically about forcing himself on women.
10% : Trump's lawyers argued the $5 million verdict should be thrown out because the trial judge, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, should not have let jurors hear testimony from two other women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct.
5% : Trump challenged several rulings by judge*Jury also found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll*Different jury held Trump liable to pay $83.3 million(Adds details from decision, Carroll's and Trump's ages, paragraphs 2-7, 15-17)By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK, Dec 30 (Reuters) -
5% : The May 2023 verdict stemmed from an incident around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan, where Carroll, now 81, said Trump raped her, and an October 2022 Truth Social post where Trump denied Carroll's claim as a hoax.

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