President Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to throw out the E. Jean Carroll sex abuse verdict.
“There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation,” Trump told the Supreme Court in the appeal filed Monday viewed by CNN.
“Instead, Carroll waited more than 20 years to falsely accuse Donald Trump, who she politically opposes, until after he became the 45th president, when she could maximize political injury to him and profit for herself,” Trump said in the appeal.
A Manhattan jury reached a verdict in the E. Jean Carroll rape/defamation case in May 2023 and ordered Trump to pay her $5 million.
In 2019, E. Jean Carroll alleged that Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s but she could not name the date or even the year this allegedly took place.
The court sided with Carroll anyway with no evidence.
Trump has denied the allegations and called E. Jean Carroll a “whack job” who’s “not my type.”
E. Jean Carroll even went on CNN and told Anderson Cooper that rape is ‘sexy’ and a ‘fantasy.’
Anderson Cooper was so shocked by E. Jean Carroll’s statements that he quickly went to a commercial break.
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The jury decided that E. Jean Carroll did not prove that Trump raped her.
However, the jury said E. Jean Carroll proved Trump sexually abused her when he ‘inserted fingers into her vagina.’
An appeals court last year upheld E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million judgment against President Trump.
“We conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings. Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial,” judges on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in their ruling,” NBC News reported.
In a separate defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll, In January 2024, Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll.
Trump’s efforts to assert immunity over his 2019 statements about E. Jean Carroll were rejected.
