Supreme Court won’t hear Trump’s bid to overturn Carroll sexual abuse verdict

The Supreme Court refused President Trump’s request on Monday to overturn a jury’s verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and defaming her.

It leaves intact the $5 million award that became a dominant prong of Trump’s personal legal troubles as he plotted his way back to the White House. Trump maintains that Carroll is making up her story and argues the trial was tainted with highly prejudicial evidence.

The Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal without any noted dissents. The justices choose which cases they take up and turn away the vast majority.

Carroll came forward publicly during Trump’s first presidency with claims that he assaulted her roughly two decades earlier in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury department store located in Midtown Manhattan.

The longtime advice columnist took Trump to trial twice in New York and won.

The Supreme Court’s order concerns the first trial. While jurors voted that Trump shouldn’t be held liable for rape, they agreed he was on the hook for a lesser........

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