Donald Trump is planning to be in New York City this week to attend a court hearing where his lawyers will argue to overturn a $5 million jury verdict finding him liable of sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll, sources told The Post Tuesday.
The 2024 Republican presidential nominee plans attend the arguments scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday in a Manhattan federal appeals court in Lower Manhattan, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Trump was found liable in May 2023 of sexually assaulting the “Ask E. Jean” advice columnist in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room in 1996 and then defaming her in an Oct. 12, 2022 Truth Social post calling her lawsuit a “hoax.”
The former president’s lawyers, in their appeal, argue Trump couldn’t get a fair trial in New York, according to court documents.
They also claim the judge in the case repeatedly doled out “flawed and prejudicial” rulings — including allowing the testimony of two other Trump sexual assault accusers and for the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape to be played for jurors.
At trial, jurors not only heard testimony from Carroll, 80, about the alleged attack but they also heard from Jessica Leeds who claimed Trump groped her on a plane in the late 1970s and from Natasha Stoynoff who cried as she recounted how the real estate tycoon allegedly once forcibly kissing her at his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2005.
The jury also heard the notorious recording of the 45th president saying women let him grab them “by the p—y” because he was a star.
“The improper verdict in this case is a gross miscarriage of justice, backed by political operatives long opposed to President Trump and his politics, based on false and unsupported claims by [Carroll],” the November appellate brief says.
Trump has repeatedly claimed he didn’t know Carroll, that she wasn’t his type and that the alleged incident never happened.
At a second trial in January, Trump was hit with an $83 million verdict after a jury heard a separate case from Carroll alleging he defamed her and damaged her journalistic reputation when she went public about her claims in June 2019.
Within hours of her claims coming out, Trump called Carroll a “whack job” who should “pay dearly” for her accusations. And Trump has continued to defame her every since, she claimed.
Trump is also appealing the second verdict but oral arguments have yet to be scheduled.
They’re just one of several legal headaches for Trump, who was convicted in May of falsifying documents to cover-up making a series of “hush money” payments in the lead up to the 2016 election. He is set to be sentenced in Manhattan Supreme Court on Sept. 18.
Trump has two other criminal cases pending in Georgia state court and DC federal court for allegedly interfering in the 2020 election.
A third criminal case in Florida federal court accusing Trump of hoarding confidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago home and then later lying about it was recently thrown out by a judge. The feds are currently appealing that ruling.
Trump is also on-the-hook for $455 million in damages after he was found liable for carrying out sweeping fraud in his business affairs.
He’s claimed that all of his legal woes are part of a Democratic effort — lead by his former opponent President Biden — to keep him from winning the 2024 election.
Carroll’s lawyer didn’t immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.