NEW: 2nd Circuit Rules on Trump’s Appeal of E. Jean Carroll Verdict

NEW: ABC News Apologizes to Trump, Pays Large Settlement in Defamation Suit

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a ruling in President-elect Donald Trump’s appeal of the verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation/sexual abuse civil suit against him. In a word: No. 

A federal appeals court on Monday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a jury’s verdict last year that found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s.

Trump has not yet commented on the ruling, though we can expect he will soon. 

The court declined to overturn the verdict. 

This was also the case in which the jury specifically found that Trump was not liable for rape, though they did find him liable for sexual abuse. That verdict played a critical role in Trump’s defamation suit against ABC News for George Stephanopoulos’ insistence that Trump had been found liable for rape while interrogating Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) as to how she could possibly support him. That suit, of course, recently resolved via a $15 million settlement.

Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, hailed Monday’s decision.

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The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided “Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings” and “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.”

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