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Appeals Court Affirms Verdict Finding Trump Liable for Sexual Assault

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A New York jury ordered Trump to pay columnist E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages.

A federal appeals courtroom has upheld a New York jury’s verdict discovering President-elect Donald Trump chargeable for sexually assaulting author E. Jean Carroll in 1996.

The jury had ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million in damages for the alleged assault and defaming her with feedback he made in 2022.

Trump appealed the decision to the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Second Circuit, arguing that the state courtroom erred in a number of evidentiary rulings. However the three-judge panel disagreed in its Dec. 30 ruling.

“On overview for abuse of discretion, we conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district courtroom erred in any of the challenged rulings. Additional, he has not carried his burden to indicate that any claimed error or mixture of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a brand new trial.”

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