The US president, Donald Trump, criticized this Monday the Supreme Court’s decision to reject the appeal with which he sought to revoke a ruling that forces him to pay US$5 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation, and assured that he will continue “fighting” against this case.
“I will continue the fight against this case of judicial instrumentalization against me, including the ridiculous accusation of defamation, with all my power and strength,” the president wrote on his Truth Social network.
The president considered that the high court has refused to review what he describes as a “false case” presented by “a woman he has never met.”
“A photo from decades ago posing with your husband doesn’t count!” she added.
Trump maintained that the process “is actually against the United States and everything the country stands for” and stated that “something like this should never be allowed to happen to another president or presidential candidate.”
The president also attacked the state of New York, stating that it passed a temporary law with retroactive effect “for the sole purpose of catching him unfairly.”
“It was tailor-made, and this injustice cannot be allowed to endure,” he added.
For her part, the writer’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement that all of Trump’s attempts to appeal the verdict “have failed” and that this decision “puts an end to his efforts to avoid responsibility for his actions.”
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to review an appeal filed by Trump against the ruling that forces him to compensate Carroll with millions of dollars, after a jury found him guilty of sexual abuse and defamation.
The decision, adopted without comments or dissenting votes, leaves in force the verdict issued in 2023 and later confirmed by a federal appeals court, which rejected the president’s defense arguments about alleged irregularities during the process.
The case arose after accusations by Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, who claimed that Trump sexually abused her in a changing room at a New York department store in the mid-1990s.
The president has repeatedly denied those accusations.