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A new setback for Donald Trump. The Federal Court of Appeals confirmed on Monday, December 30, that Trump will have to pay five million dollars to writer Jean Carroll for sexually abusing her and then defaming her.
It all happened in 1996 in a dressing room at a Bergdof Goodman department store in Manhattan, where he sexually assaulted the writer, accusing her of rape. Also, in 2022 on Truth Social Trump said the following: "I don't know Carroll and she's not my type. The woman made up the rape complaint to promote her memoirs".
What has the court said about Trump and Carroll?
The three-judge Federal Court of Appeals concluded that the future president of the United States has not demonstrated any of the errors he was seeking to have the trial repeated.
The judges explained it this way: "With respect to the arbitrariness of the appeal, we conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the decisions that have been appealed," they said.
In 2023, Donald Trump was convicted of the events, but the future US president has continued to deny it through social networks and in his press conferences: "I don't know that woman and I never met her."
However, according to the Federal Court of Appeals, Donald Trump will have to compensate Carroll for the facts. However, in January 2024, the writer also sued Trump for defaming her through social networks, requesting this other compensation of 83.3 million dollars, something that has also been appealed by Donald Trump and of which the final sentence is not yet known. In short, what we are sure of is that Trump will end the year 2024 with a new stir around his figure