Trump, appeals court upholds $5m compensation to journalist Carroll
The appointed president's legal team did not prove any miscarriages of justice
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The 2nd federal appeals court upheld a Manhattan jury verdict that found Donald Trump, 78, liable for sexually abusing journalist E. Jean Carroll, 80, ordering him to pay $5 million in damages. The court concluded that the president-elect's legal team did not prove or prove any miscarriage of justice that would justify a retrial or a mistrial.
Jean Carroll abused by Trump in a department store dressing room
For the jury, Donald Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll, 51 at the time. in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York, not far from the Trump tower.
E. Jean Carroll for 26 years (1993-2019) edited the 'Ask E. Jean' column in Elle magazine, one of the longest-running advice columns in American publishing.
But this is not the first civil sentence.
Trump sentenced on 26 January 2024 to compensation of $83.3 million
On 26 January 2024, again a New York jury had sentenced Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million in restitution, for the same sexual assault, for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll by denying, in 2019 - when she was president - the same assault. Carroll had asked for 24 million. This was a much higher sum than the expected 18.3 million in 'compensatory' damages (for emotional distress and damage to reputation and thus loss of earnings) and 65 million in 'punitive' damages (as deterrence against further defamation).
