U.S. court denies Trump's bid to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Additionally, Trump should pay $83.3 million to Carroll for defamatory statements he made against her in 2019, according to the verdict of a separate Manhattan federal jury in January 2024.
32% : "Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings," said the appeals court in an opinion.
26% : Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleged that Trump raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim.
22% : Trump "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," concluded the appeals court.
19% : Donald Trump is ordered by a jury to pay $83.3 million to columnist E. Jean Carroll after being found liable for defamation, January 26, 2024.
15% : Trump appealed and contended that the district court erred in several of its evidentiary rulings and those asserted errors entitled him to a new trial.
14% : In May 2023, a federal jury from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York awarded Carroll $5 million in damages, including nearly $3 million for defamation, after they found that Trump sexually abused Carroll and then defamed her in 2022 for public statements he made disparaging her and denying the allegations.

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