Trump attorneys Alina Habba and Will Scharf look on as their client expresses his disappointment on Sept. 6, 2024 (C-SPAN).
After much anticipated oral arguments on Friday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where Donald Trump asked for a new trial in E. Jean Carroll’s case, a civil lawsuit in which a jury last year found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation, the former president held a press conference and expressed disappointment in his lawyers, as they stood behind him, and said his “legal talent” simply has not been able to “overcome rigged judges” and liberal juries.
Trump appeared in Manhattan to attend court and looked on as his appellate attorney D. John Sauer made the case that Senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan “erred” in rulings on evidence he allowed and didn’t allow, meaning there should be a new trial in the case known as Carroll II.
In that case, a jury in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s and for defaming her when denying the allegations decades later while president, leading to a $5 million award in damages (and $83 million more in a second defamation lawsuit known as Carroll I).
