FROM WASHINGTON EXAMINER: President Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday appealed a New York jury’s 2023 verdict that found him liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll decades ago to the Supreme Court.
Trump has denied Carroll’s accusation that he sexually abused her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s, suggesting she first publicly brought up the matter in 2019 to help promote her book that year. After the president accused Carroll of lying and said she was not “my type,” the writer mounted a successful defamation lawsuit against him.
The president’s latest move to challenge the decision at the Supreme Court comes as he has hit a number of legal hurdles in contesting the jury’s verdict that he should be liable for sexual assault and defamation.
On Monday, Trump’s lawyers argued that “no physical or DNA evidence corroborates Carroll’s story.”
“There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation,” the legal team wrote in a 33-page petition.
Trump’s lawyers contended that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propensity evidence” against him, the Examiner reports.
Among that evidence was the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape that has been used to malign the president, as well as accusations of other instances of sexual assault by other women, which he denies.
Trump’s lawyers filed an application to appeal the case at the Supreme Court in September, but it has not yet appeared on the Court’s public docket.
President Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn verdict in civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carrollhttps://t.co/MlPU8gEJAZ
— CNN (@CNN) November 10, 2025
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