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(Left) Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Alabama Republican Party’s 2023 Summer meeting at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel in Montgomery, Ala., on Aug. 4, 2023. (Julie Bennett/Getty Images); (Right) E. Jean Carroll leaves following her trial at Manhattan Federal Court in New York on May 8, 2023. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
A federal appeals court has upheld a New York jury’s verdict finding President-elect Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996.
The jury had ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million in damages for the alleged abuse and defaming her with comments he made in 2022.
Samantha Flom was a reporter for The Epoch Times covering U.S. politics and news. A graduate of Syracuse University, she has a background in journalism and nonprofit communications.