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US Supreme Court rejects Trump's appeal in Carroll case

The US Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump's appeal of the verdict in the case of author E Jean Carroll. Trump was sentenced to five million dollars in damages for sexual assault and defamation of the plaintiff.

The president launched a fierce counterattack when Carroll stated that he raped her in a department store in 1996. In 2022, Trump accused the author of lying in a post on social media. He wrote, among other things, that "the woman is not even my type".

Trump and his lawyers argued, among other things, that the judge in the case allowed too old testimony. The Supreme Court does not give an explanation for why the appeal is being rejected.

The allegations against Trump — the case at hand

• In 2019, American journalist and author E Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of raping her in a dressing room at a New York department store in the mid-1990s.
• Carroll filed two civil lawsuits against Trump: one for sexual assault and one for defamation after Trump called her allegations lies.
• In 2023, a court ruled that Carroll could not prove that Trump raped her, but that he was guilty of sexual assault.
• Trump was also convicted of defamation and ordered to pay Carroll over $80 million in damages.
• Trump has consistently denied Carroll's allegations of sexual assault and rape, and has called the verdict a politically motivated witch hunt.