She failed to defend Trump from these supposedly bogus cases and herself filed numerous bogus lawsuits.
Trump lost again just the other day.
The court roundly rejected claims by Trump that the judge who presided over the trial erred in a series of decisions.
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Appeals court rejects Trump's challenge of sexual abuse verdict in E. Jean Carroll case
By
Graham Kates
Updated on: December 30, 2024 / 9:37 PM EST / CBS News
President-elect Donald Trump is not entitled to a new trial in the case in which a jury found him
liable for sexual abuse and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
The court roundly rejected claims by Trump and his lawyers that the judge who presided over the trial made a series of decisions that harmed Trump's standing with the jury.
Trump asked for a new trial after a jury unanimously concluded in May 2023 that a preponderance of evidence supported Carroll's claim that Trump sexually abused her during a mid-1990s encounter in a New York City department store. Monday's 77-page decision rejected complaints made repeatedly by Trump before, during and after the nine-day trial.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York, found that District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan did not err in allowing the testimonies of two women who made claims on the stand of alleged encounters with Trump that bore similarities to Carroll's.
"With his shoulder and the whole weight of his body against her, Mr. Trump held her against the wall, kissed her, pulled down her tights, and stuck his fingers into her vagina — until Ms. Carroll managed to get a knee up and push him back off of her," the appeals court wrote, summarizing evidence and testimony of Carroll's claim.
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Carroll said she and Trump bumped into each other by chance while shopping at Bergdorf Goodman. What started as a pleasant walk through the store — her helping him choose a present for another woman, as they engaged in jocular banter — turned violent in a changing room, she alleged.
Trump has vehemently denied Carroll's allegations, and vowed to appeal the case as far as the Supreme Court. He has also appealed a January 2024 trial ruling that found him liable for more defamation against Carroll. That appeal is still pending. The juries in the two cases combined awarded Carroll
more than $88 million