{"id":276544,"date":"2025-11-11T00:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276544\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:51:10","slug":"donald-trump-reportedly-asks-us-supreme-court-to-overturn-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-defamation-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276544\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump reportedly asks US Supreme Court to overturn E Jean Carroll sexual abuse, defamation verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">US President Donald Trump has reportedly asked the Supreme Court to overturn a verdict that ruled he sexually abused and defamed a woman over an incident in the 90s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A jury found Mr Trump had sexually abused E Jean Carroll, a writer, in the 1990s in a change room of a department store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Mr Trump has adamantly denied the allegations since the case was first introduced; however, he had been ordered to pay $US83.3m across two trials by a judge after jury verdicts were reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3mk41m-StyledText eze0guv9\">Sign up to The Nightly&#8217;s newsletters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1r9pdr5-StyledSubText eze0guv8\">Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>By continuing you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thenightly.com.au\/subscription-terms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sevenwestmedia.com.au\/privacy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A Supreme Court petition has reportedly now been submitted by the US President\u2019s legal team, however, paperwork has not yet been made public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\"><a class=\"css-hwy1qg-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5599298-supreme-court-trump-carroll\/\">The Hill<\/a>, a US political news outlet, claims to have seen a copy of the filing, alleging that it says Ms Caroll\u2019s claims are \u201cfacially implausible, politically motivated allegations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Ms Carroll didn\u2019t go public with her claims until after Mr Trump won the 2016 US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">After he denied her claims, the writer sued the then-incumbent US President for defamation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cCarroll waited more than 20 years to falsely accuse Donald Trump, who she politically opposes, until after he became the 45th President, when she could maximise political injury to him and profit for herself,\u201d the petition reads according to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Mr Trump, The White House or Ms Caroll are yet to comments on reports of the Supreme Court request by Mr Trump\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has reportedly asked the Supreme Court to overturn a verdict that ruled he sexually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,84,41,39,42,40,5071],"class_list":{"0":"post-276544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-us-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}