Trump surprised by court rejection of appeal in E. Jean Carroll assault case
President Donald Trump expressed surprise after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to review his appeal in a civil case involving E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded $5 million in damages after she accused him of sexual assault.
In 2023, a federal jury in New York decided in favor of Carroll, who said Trump had assaulted her in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman and later defamed her. Carroll wrote about the experience in a 2019 New York magazine article.
“Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to “review” a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met (Decades old celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!),” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The rejection by the nation’s highest court means the end of the legal road for Trump. Still, he said that he “will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”
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Erum Salam is a breaking news reporter for MS NOW, with a focus on how global events and foreign policy shape U.S. politics. She previously was a breaking news reporter for The Guardian.
