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The Republican presidential nominee is expected to attend oral
arguments before a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Manhattan. All three judges were appointed
to the bench by Democratic presidents.
Trump is appealing a May 2023 civil verdict stemming from his
alleged mid-1990s encounter with Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman
department store dressing room in Manhattan, and an Oct. 2022
Truth Social post where he called Carroll's claim a hoax.
Jurors awarded the former Elle magazine advice columnist a
respective $2.02 million and $2.98 million for her sexual
assault and defamation claims.
A different jury ordered Trump in January to pay Carroll $83.3
million for having defamed her and damaging her reputation in
June 2019 after she first accused him of rape.
In both denials, Trump said he didn't know Carroll, that she was
"not my type," and that she made up her story to promote her
memoir. Trump is separately appealing the $83.3 million verdict.
Both trials were overseen by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in
Manhattan.
Trump said in a court filing that Kaplan erred at the first
trial by admitting testimony from two accusers, Jessica Leeds
and Natasha Stoynoff.
Leeds said Trump groped her on a plane in the late 1970s, while
Stoynoff said he forcibly kissed her at his Mar-a-Lago estate in
2005.
Trump also objected to letting jurors see a 2005 "Access
Hollywood" video where he graphically described how famous
people like himself could have sexual relations with beautiful
women.
He said Kaplan also wrongly excluded evidence that Carroll was
politically motivated to sue, and lied in a deposition regarding
how a fellow Democrat, billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid
Hoffman, was funding her case.
Though the first jury stopped short of finding that Trump raped
Carroll, Kaplan said its verdict made Trump's June 2019 denial
defamatory, leading to the $83.3 million verdict.
Carroll's cases are separate from multiple criminal cases
against the former U.S. president.
Trump has yet to be sentenced in Manhattan state court in a hush
money case, after being convicted in May of falsifying business
records to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of
the 2016 election.
(Reporting by Jack Queen and Jonathan Stempel in New York;
Editing by Noeleen Walder and Jonathan Oatis)
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