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On Monday, the Supreme Court declined President Donald Trump’s request to review a 2023 verdict that found him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump is legally required to pay Carroll the $5 million, as directed in 2023.

On his Truth Social account, Trump posted, “Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to ‘review’ a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met,” and called the defamation case “ridiculous.”

Trump had asked the Supreme Court to review and overturn the case in 2025.

Two previous courts have ruled against Trump in this case, finding the president liable for sexual assault and defamation.

Carroll, a former columnist for Elle Magazine, published a memoir in 2019 that described Trump sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room in Manhattan in the 1990s. Trump denied the account. But in 2022, the New York Adult Survivors Act went into effect, which granted adult survivors of sexual violence a one-year window to sue abusers regardless of how long ago abuse had occurred. Carroll was one of the first to use this Act – to sue Trump. A New York jury unanimously found Trump responsible for sexual abuse and defamation, even after Trump’s lawyer grilled Carroll on her recollection of the events, her social media posts, and her income. She was awarded $5 million.

Trump Employs Misogynistic Line of Defense in E. Jean Carroll Defamation Trial

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