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Former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll watches Joe Tacopina, attorney for former US President Donald Trump, plead an end to a civil lawsuit where Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in the locker room of a department store in the mid-1990s, and defamation, in New York on May 8, 2023.
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Donald Trump on Thursday filed an opinion that he call this week’s federal civil jury verdict holding the former president responsible for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
Trump’s lawyers also said in a court filing that they would ask the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit to overturn the order requiring him to pay $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. to Carroll in this matter.
His attorneys filed their notice of appeal in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, less than an hour after the final judgement of the jury was entered in the docket of this tribunal.
Carroll, 79, sued Trump for allegedly raping her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and for defaming her in comments last fall when he denied her allegations.
Trump, 76, denies ever seeing Carroll at the store. He said both that she made up these allegations and that she was “not my type”.
Former US President Donald Trump disembarks from his plane, Trump Force One, at Aberdeen Airport in Aberdeen, Scotland on May 1, 2023.
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The trial jury did not find on Tuesday that there was a preponderance of evidence that Trump raped Carroll, but its finding that he likely sexually assaulted her was enough to support his civil suit for assault and battery.
Trump is the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Trump, at a New Hampshire town hall hosted by CNN on Wednesday night, poked fun at Carroll, drawing laughter and cheers from the audience. Trump called Carroll a “crazy job” at the town hall and again claimed his account of events was “false.”
“She wasn’t raped, okay?” said Trump. “And I haven’t done anything else either, OK, because I don’t know who she is.”