The president has repeatedly tried to overturn the 2024 verdict
A federal appeals court in New York on Monday squashed President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a jury’s decision to award writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in a defamation case after she accused Trump of raping her in a department store in the 1990s.
The unanimous decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan, which was published unsigned, came six years after Carroll first filed her case, which she won in 2024.
“We hold that the district court did not err in any of the challenged rulings and that the jury’s duly rendered damages awards were reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts of this case,” the court wrote.
The White House referred TheWrap to Trump’s personal attorneys.
“The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes, the defense of which the Attorney General has determined is legally required to be taken over by the Department of Justice because Carroll based her false claims on the President’s official acts, including statements from the White House,” a spokespeson for Trump’s legal team said.
