E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court, in New York. (AP)

US President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s verdict in a $5 million civil lawsuit wherein it was found that president sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, AP reported.

In a filing before the apex court on Monday, Trump’s lawyers argued that allegations leading to a verdict by the jury in the $5 million civil case were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propensity evidence” against him.

In 2024, a federal appeal’s court upheld the $5 million verdict by a jury related to sexual abuse and defamation allegation made agains

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