On Friday, former President Donald Trump’s legal team is expected to file to appeal the $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s case at a federal appeals court.
Trump is expected to attend the hearing at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City.
Carroll alleged that Trump raped her at the Bergdorf Goodman department store across from Trump Tower in Manhattan sometime in 1996. She was seeking $12 million.
A federal jury in New York City decided last year that Trump was not liable for rape but was liable for sexual abuse and defamation. The former president was ordered to pay $5 million in that trial.
Carroll also hit Trump with a separate defamation suit, claiming his responses to her accusations caused harm to her reputation.
Trump and his legal team insist that Carroll’s allegations are fabricated, with the former president’s initial reaction including an accusation that Carroll was motivated by wanting to sell copies of her book.
Earlier this year a New York jury found that Carroll was injured as a result of statements Trump made while in the White House in 2019.
The jury ruled that Trump’s statements were made to harm Carroll and awarded her $65 million in punitive damages. In total, with the reputational repair program, the jury said Carroll should be paid $83.3 million.
Trump attorneys on Friday are expected to argue that the jury’s verdict should be tossed because evidence was allowed at trial that should have been excluded, and that other evidence was excluded that should have been permitted.
The court is highly unlikely to rule on the matter before the November presidential election.
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Carroll is a parasite. She cannot remember details, why did this take so long? She simply wants money & fame. This will be overturned or dismissed as the others will be. She is a disgusting, vile person as is her lawyer.