Maddow Blog | Court upholds verdict in E. Jean Carroll's case against Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

30% : As a political matter, the outcomes did not derail his campaign -- Trump managed to win a second term anyway -- but as a legal matter, the relevance of Carroll's allegations did not fade away.
28% : As regular readers no doubt recall, it was last year when a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, and jurors awarded the writer $5 million in damages for her battery and defamation claims.
28% : " Despite the juries' findings, Trump has long insisted that he did nothing wrong, adding on multiple occasions that his accuser isn't his "type.
27% : Indeed, as recently as the weekend, Trump used his social media platform to amplify an item suggesting his accuser might belong "in jail" for "falsely accusing" him of rape.
25% : Part of the problem with this is the fact that every jury who has considered Carroll's claims has sided with her against Trump.
21% : Donald Trump suffered a variety of important legal setbacks after losing his re-election bid four years ago, but among the most important were E. Jean Carroll cases against him.
16% : Trump also faced a second defamation trial, stemming from comments he made about Carroll in 2019, and he lost that case, too.

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