https://www.newsweek.com/e-jean-carroll-reacts-trump-defamation-sexual-abuse-appeal-2097580
E.Jean Carroll took a victory lap on Thursday in response to an appeals court order affirming its ruling to uphold a civil verdict that found President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll.
"Thursday, July 10th, 2025," she wrote. "So long, Old Man! The United States Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, bids thee farewell."
The appeals court handed down its initial ruling in June but issued a mandate affirming that ruling and triggering the window for the Trump administration to ask the Supreme Court to step in and overturn the verdict.
The New York federal appeals court on Thursday affirmed its earlier ruling, which said Trump did not demonstrate that the judge who presided over his 2023 trial had "erred in any of the challenged rulings."
"Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial," the three-judge panel for the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrote in its June ruling.
Poor Carooll. She really though she'd be the nail in Trump's coffin. Instead, he's moved on and she's left with huffing triumphantly over an empty victory.
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