Trump wanted to reopen a civil lawsuit for sexual abuse. But the verdict stands. Due to Trump’s statements after the conviction, he is even threatened with another trial.
Former US President Donald Trump faces another legal setback. A New York judge denied a request by Trump’s attorneys to reopen a civil sex abuse case. Contrary to what Trump’s lawyers claimed, the jury in this trial did not come to a “seriously wrong conclusion”, judge Lewis Kaplan decided, according to consistent US media reports.
In May, a New York jury found it proven that Trump had assaulted and sexually assaulted US author E. Jean Carroll in a New York upmarket department store in 1996. The jury rejected the allegation of rape. Trump was ordered to pay compensation of five million dollars (about 4.5 million euros).
Shortly after the conviction, Carroll announced that she would take legal action against the ex-president again. As a reason, she cited further statements by Trump after the verdict. A federal judge in New York has tentatively set the trial to begin on January 15, 2024. Trump is now also suing Carroll for defamation. Trump, who wants to run as a Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election, also has to deal with courts in several other cases.
Source: Stern
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