Trump Appears At Manhattan Federal Court To Appeal $5M Judgment In E. Jean

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at Trump Tower on September 06, 2024 in New York City. Trump held a press conference hours after attending a federal appeals court attempting to get a new trial after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll. A nine-member jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages following a two-week trial last year and another jury awarded her $83.3 million in damages after finding Trump defamed her again in 2022. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
11:11 AM – Friday, September 6, 2024

Donald Trump and his lawyers appeared in a Manhattan federal court on Friday, looking to overturn a $5 million jury verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll.

The 45^th president’s motorcade was spotted pulling up outside the 2^nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Lower Manhattan as the hearing got underway.

Preparations started several days ago for the 78-year-old, to safely be able to attend the arguments in person.

Trump was found liable in May 2023, of sexually assaulting the “Ask E. Jean” advice columnists in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room in 1996 and then defaming her in an October 12^th, 2022 Truth Social post calling her lawsuit a “hoax.”

Trump has been adamant that he never attacked Carroll. He did not attend the initial trial in 2023.

“Mr. Trump is here today,” Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, told the court during Friday’s hearing. “He was given every opportunity to take the stand and rebut all this evidence. He did not put on a single witness.”

Trump’s lawyers have argued that the jury’s verdict should be tossed because evidence was allowed at trial should have been excluded, while other evidence was excluded that should have been permitted.

Trump attorney Will Scharf stated that the case is invalid due to lack of evidence, no police report field and the fact that there were no witnesses.

Trump lawyer @willscharf brilliantly demolishes the E. Jean Carroll case, highlighting the absence of evidence, no police report, and no witnesses, while also noting that top Democrat operatives George Conway and Reid Hoffman are behind the lawsuit.pic.twitter.com/zdCJwvAGQ3

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) September 6, 2024

Furthermore, they added that the former president couldn’t get a fair trial in New York.

E. Jean Carroll is seen leaving the NYC courthouse where President Trump is appealing her fraudulent claims against him, if there’s any evidence of what she alleges please feel free to describe it in the commentspic.twitter.com/Or8QJanNoV

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) September 6, 2024