A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million verdict that found President-elect Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and later defaming magazine writer E. Jean Carroll. Jon Jackson is an Associate Editor at Newsweek based in New York. His focus is on reporting on the Ukraine ... Read more

A jury last year found that Carroll was sexually abused by Trump at a Manhattan department store in 1996 and that he defamed her in later statements.

In a separate case, Trump was also ordered by a jury to pay Carroll more than $80 million in damages for the defamatory statements, though the president-elect’s appeal of that decision is still pending.

President-Elect Donald Trump has lost his bid to overturn a $5 million jury verdict finding him responsible for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll.

An appeals court has rejected 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.

The court roundly rejected claims by Trump that the judge who presided over the trial erred in a series of decisions.

After losing a civil defamation case to E. Jean Carroll, the president-elect sought a new trial. A federal appeals court rejected Trump's arguments.

The ruling by federal judges said Donald Trump did not demonstrate that the district court “erred in any of the challenged rulings.”

A federal appeals court ruled against President-elect Donald Trump's appeal of a $5 million award to the columnist.

An appeals court upheld a verdict against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, as his spokesperson once again called the claims a “hoax”

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