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Trump loses appeal of sexual abuse and defamation judgment in E. Jean Carroll case

Dec 30, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -67% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

-47% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : One of the two said Trump pushed her against a wall and forcibly kissed her as she was conducting a magazine interview in the mid-2000s.
28% : Trump has strongly denied her claims and disputed a Manhattan civil jury's unanimous verdict.
28% : The lawyers also said the testimony from the other women alleging they were assaulted by Trump demonstrated his propensity to assault women "in markedly similar ways across time.
25% : The Trump team also argued the jury shouldn't have been allowed to hear Trump saying on an "Access Hollywood" recording that he kisses women without waiting for them to give consent and that stars can grab women's genitals.
19% : Trump denies those allegations as well.
19% : At that time, Trump said "people should pay dearly for such false accusations."
19% : Trump has said Carroll's story is false and she isn't his "type."
18% : However, Carroll's legal team has noted that, during a 2022 deposition, Trump confused Carroll in a photo from 1987 for his former wife, Marla Maples.
17% : A separate federal jury awarded Carroll another $83.3 million for statements Trump made in 2019, soon after Carroll went public with her allegations.
11% : In his appeal, Trump's lawyers attacked trial Judge Lewis Kaplan's decision to allow two other women to testify that Trump assaulted them, too.
5% : Carroll's lawyers argued that her sexual abuse case against Trump wasn't even close, in part because two friends of Carroll testified they heard her story of being assaulted by Trump soon after she says it happened.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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