President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to review the $5 million civil verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

Trump’s legal team urged the justices to overturn the ruling, arguing that Carroll’s decades-old allegation was politically motivated and unsupported by direct evidence. Caroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s in a New York department store.

“There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation,” the filing said, according to documents reviewed by Axios and CNN.

“Instead, Carroll waited more than 20 years to falsely accuse Donald Trump, who she politically opposes, until after he became the 45th president, when she could maximize political injury to him and profi

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