President-elect Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider the jury’s verdict that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation against writer E. Jean Carroll.

Lawyers for Mr. Trump filed a petition to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking for an en banc review, where the full court would hear the case rather than just the panel of three judges that upheld the $5 million verdict last month.

The lawyers argued that Ms. Carroll brought up “decades-old, facially implausible, politically motivated allegations against” Mr. Trump.

“Carroll waited over 20 years to falsely accuse President Trump, did so at a time calculated to injure him politically and profit herself, and told a story that precisely matches a plotline from one of her favorite TV shows,” Trump lawyers Todd Blanche, Emil Bove and D. John Sauder wrote.

A New York jury awarded Ms. Carroll $5 million in damages in 2023 after it found Mr. Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s and defaming her in comments denying the allegations.

In January 2024, Ms. Carroll was awarded another $83.3 million in damages for more comments Mr. Trump made.

The lawyers argued that the trial judge erred in allowing two women to testify in court in 2023 about their alleged experiences of sexual assault by Mr. Trump and allowing the jury to listen to the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which Mr. Trump boasted that his celebrity status gave him carte blanche to sexually accost women.

“To have any chance of persuading a jury, Carroll’s implausible, unsubstantiated allegations had to be — and repeatedly were — propped up by the erroneous admission of highly inflammatory propensity evidence,” the lawyers wrote.

They said the “errors will result in the erroneous admission of inflammatory propensity evidence in many future cases, resulting in unjust verdicts based on passion and prejudice instead of the law and evidence.”

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.