US Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump in $5 million E Jean Carroll case

Justices shoot down Trump’s second attempt to reverse defamation and sexual abuse verdict

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The Supreme Court on Monday turned away President Donald Trump’s longshot effort to deny a $5.6 million payment he was ordered to make three years after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed the former magazine writer E. Jean Carroll.

In July, he paid Carroll more than $5m (£3.6m) in damages over her civil claim that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, and then branded the incident a hoax on social media.