U.S. appeals court upholds Trump verdict in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

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80% : "We look forward to uniting our country in the new administration as President Trump makes America great again," Cheung added.
40% : "The decision comes after a New York jury last year found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s -- and for subsequently defaming her when she came forward with her story during his first term in office.
28% : In a separate case, Trump was also ordered by a jury to pay Carroll more than $80 million in damages for the defamatory statements made in his first term in the White House, though the president-elect's appeal of that decision is still pending.
24% : A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Monday in an unsigned opinion that Trump failed to demonstrate "that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings" and "has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.
16% : A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury's verdict finding Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s -- delivering a blow to the president-elect, and leaving him on the hook for the $5 million payout ordered by the jury.

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