The New York Court of Appeal confirmed this Monday, December 30, that Donald Trumpelected for a second term as president of the United States, will have to pay 5 million has Writer Elizabeth Jean Carroll. The move follows allegations of sexual assault dating back to the 1990s and defamation after the matter became public decades later.
In May 2023, a federal civil court in Manhattan found the former president guilty of sexually assaulting Elizabeth Jean Carroll in a New York department store in 1996. He was also convicted of defaming her when she exposed the facts in 2019, in an autobiographical book.
Elizabeth Jean Carroll, now 81, described this attack as rape, but the courts did not use that term, opting instead to charge her with sexual assault. The court then ordered Trump to pay $2 million for the attack and $3 million for defamation.
“Donald Trump provided no evidence that the court’s initial ruling was wrong”the appeal judges wrote in their order, thus upholding the convictions without the need for a new trial.
At the same time, another ruling handed down in January 2024 imposed an even heavier sanction on Trump: $83.3 million for additional defamatory comments against Elizabeth Jean Carroll. This verdict is also under appeal.
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