Trump sought to appeal against the verdict and erase the lofty $5m (£3.8m) fine delivered by a jury in May 2023.

Trump blamed his lawyers for the jury’s verdict in this case, as they had advised him to avoid appearing in court. He has regularly attended court cases involving him since.

He attended and briefly testified at the second trial, which resulted in an additional $83m judgement against him.

Friday’s hearing is just one of multiple legal hurdles that Trump faces.

He awaits sentencing in a Manhattan criminal trial after he was convicted of falsifying business records to cover up hush-money payments to an adult film star.

  • pelespiritOPMEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Much of the arguments — on the 17th floor of a Manhattan federal courthouse — focused on whether sexual assault testimony from one witness in the trial should have been tossed because the incident she alleges took place on an airplane.

    John Sauer, Trump’s lawyer in the Friday arguments, said the jury should have never heard evidence from Jessica Leeds, who testified that Trump groped her on a plane in the 1970s. When Trump ran into Leeds a couple of years later, he recalled her as “that cunt from the airplane,” Leeds testified.

    Leeds’s allegations weren’t part of Carroll’s accusations, but the trial judge allowed her testimony because they demonstrated what Carroll’s lawyers argued was a pattern of behavior by Trump.

    Source

    • pelespiritOPMEnglish
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      4 months ago

      He’s doing it again, lol

      “This is not the kind of publicity you’d like,” Donald Trump said about the case.

      He went on to say, “I should be suing [E Jean Carroll] for defamation” before repeating his attacks on Carroll while talking about how he has been famous for “a long time.”

      “She has gone around for years saying this story and it’s a total lie… This whole thing started, along with just about every case I’ve been involved with, with the political campaign of Harris, who’s having a bad time,” he said.

      “It’s all fabricated…in front of very friendly judges,” Trump continued. Source