Trump asks supreme court to throw out jury’s finding in E Jean Carroll lawsuit

Writer and author had testified, and won, at trial that the president had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s

Donald Trump asked the US supreme court on Monday to throw out a jury's finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

Trump's lawyers argued in a lengthy filing with the high court that allegations leading to the $5m verdict were propped up" by a series of indefensible evidentiary rulings" that allowed Carroll's lawyers to present highly inflammatory propensity evidence" against him.