Appeals Court Affirms Verdict Finding Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse

A New York jury ordered Trump to pay columnist E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages.

(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.