Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn a Manhattan civil jury’s $5m sexual abuse and defamation verdict were met with scepticism by a federal appeals court on Friday, with judges questioning whether his complaints about trial evidence held any merit.
The Trump attorney D John Sauer’s opening salvo, which claimed “this case is a textbook example of improbable allegations being propped up by highly inflammatory, inadmissible, propensity evidence”, was met with a swift rebuff.
