Trump to appeal E Jean Carroll $5m verdict after being found liable for sexual abuse
donald trump appeals against the verdict EJean Carroll Case after he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
Ms. Carroll was awarded $5 million by the civil trial jury earlier this month Manhattan.
The appeal came shortly after Judge Lewis Kaplan delivered his verdict in the case. according to CNN.
Ms Carroll, an author and magazine journalist, alleged at trial that Mr Trump raped her in a fitting room at Berghof Goodman department store in the mid-1990s.
Mr Trump has consistently denied the allegation.
Trump’s legal team filed an appeal with the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday.
The notice was filed just hours after Judge Lewis Kaplan penned a ruling in support of the jury’s verdict, ordering the former president to pay the full $5 million.
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