Trump team files notice of appeal in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation case
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Attorneys for former President Donald Trump filed a notice of appeal in the sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.
A jury had found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll earlier this week, and it ordered that Trump pay $5 million in damages.
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The notice says Trump’s attorneys will appeal the Tuesday judgment in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Carroll alleges that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City in the mid-1990s and subsequently defamed her with comments denying that the incident had occurred. A jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation after just under three hours of deliberation, but jurors dismissed Carroll’s rape claims.
Trump has denied the allegations and has vocally opposed the findings of the jury.
Shortly after the jury decision on Tuesday, Trump called the verdict a “disgrace” and “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.” The comments came in a post on Truth Social.
One of Trump’s lawyers, Joe Tacopina, made clear an appeal was imminent when speaking with reporters on Tuesday outside the courthouse.
“It’s a little perplexing, but we move forward,” Tacopina said, adding that he had spoken with the former president. “We’re very confident on these valid issues here. … We made many motions that we thought would create issues for appeal, and we’re going to employ them now.”
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At a CNN town hall on Wednesday, Trump called Carroll’s claims a “fake” and “made-up story”
“What’s happening is they are doing this for election interference,” Trump said. “This woman, I don’t know her. I never met her. I have no idea who she is.”