The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear Donald Trump’s challenge to a $5 million jury verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. The 2023 civil verdict stemmed from Carroll’s claim that Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, which he has consistently denied. Trump’s 2022 social-media post calling her allegation a hoax and adding “This woman is not my type!” became the basis of the defamation claim. Lower courts had upheld the jury’s decision, rejecting Trump’s argument that evidence of past misconduct should not have been allowed. Trump called the case a “Fake Case” and vowed to keep fighting, while Carroll’s attorney said the ruling ends his efforts to avoid accountability.