Trump’s legal woes mount while Harris raises staggering $361m in August
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It is a busy day for Donald Trump as his lawyers attempt to appeal against the 2023 judgment in the E Jean Carroll civil case which found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer. A nine-person jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. Trump is reportedly expected to attend Friday’s oral arguments in the lower Manhattan courthouse.
In other legal woes, judge Juan Merchan who presided over Trump’s hush money criminal trial is expected to rule today on whether he will postpone Trump’s sentencing until after the presidential elections. Trump, who was convicted on all 34 accounts of falsifying business records, was originally scheduled to be sentenced on July 11. However, Merchan delayed the date to September 18 after Trump’s lawyers asked the case to be re-evaluated due to the supreme court’s presidential immunity ruling earlier this summer.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’s campaign brought in $361 million in contributions last month, nearly tripling the $130 million raised by Trump’s campaign during the same period, Politico reports, citing figures released by both campaigns this week. Harris’s massive fundraising over Trump comes as leading historian Allan Lichtman predicts Harris’s White House victory, come November. Lichtman is said to have correctly predicted every US presidential election since 1984, except for Al Gore’s loss to George W Bush in 2000.
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Key events
Donald Trump will potentially be making an appearance at the lower Manhattan courthouse today to try to overturn the 2023 judgment in his case involving writer Jean Carroll.
Victoria Bekiempis, who will be reporting for the Guardian at the courthouse, reports:
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is reportedly poised to attend these proceedings before the US court of appeals for the second circuit this morning. But it is unclear whether he will show up to court – especially with the 2024 election in its final stretch.
A jury found in May 2023 that Trump attacked Carroll in a department store dressing room some 30 years ago. Their award was comprised of $2m for sexual abuse and $3m for defamation, as Trump repeatedly smeared Carroll’s reputation after she came forward against him just over five years ago.
Carroll disclosed the incident in a June 2019 New York magazine article, which was an excerpt of her then-forthcoming book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal; Trump responded by claiming she was lying and trying to damage him politically.
Carroll also won a $83.3m civil verdict against Trump in a second trial this January. The judge in both trials, Lewis Kaplan, determined that jurors’ findings in the first trial – that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll – would be accepted as fact in the second trial.
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Trump’s legal woes mount while Harris raises staggering $361m in August
Good morning,
It is a busy day for Donald Trump as his lawyers attempt to appeal against the 2023 judgment in the E Jean Carroll civil case which found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer. A nine-person jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. Trump is reportedly expected to attend Friday’s oral arguments in the lower Manhattan courthouse.
In other legal woes, judge Juan Merchan who presided over Trump’s hush money criminal trial is expected to rule today on whether he will postpone Trump’s sentencing until after the presidential elections. Trump, who was convicted on all 34 accounts of falsifying business records, was originally scheduled to be sentenced on July 11. However, Merchan delayed the date to September 18 after Trump’s lawyers asked the case to be re-evaluated due to the supreme court’s presidential immunity ruling earlier this summer.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’s campaign brought in $361 million in contributions last month, nearly tripling the $130 million raised by Trump’s campaign during the same period, Politico reports, citing figures released by both campaigns this week. Harris’s massive fundraising over Trump comes as leading historian Allan Lichtman predicts Harris’s White House victory, come November. Lichtman is said to have correctly predicted every US presidential election since 1984, except for Al Gore’s loss to George W Bush in 2000.
Here are other developments in US politics:
-
Joe Biden is set to travel to Ann Arbor, Michigan today where he will speak about his administration’s economic agenda.
-
JD Vance is facing backlash after calling school shootings a “fact of life,” a line which Democrats are likely to seize upon in their criticisms of Republicans’ refusal to pass stricter gun laws.