Donald Trump Found Liable Of Sexual Abuse & Defamation By Jury

After less than three hours of deliberation, a jury in Manhattan has found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming magazine writer E. Jean Carroll. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. Carroll didn’t ask for a specific amount in damages. The jury came to the $5 million figure on its own. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1656014764466741249 From the New York Times:

The federal jury of six men and three women found that Mr. Trump, 76, defamed Ms. Carroll when he posted a statement on his Truth Social website in October, calling her case “a complete con job” and “a Hoax and a lie.”

The jury, in returning its verdict shortly after 3 p.m. said Ms. Carroll had not proved, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Mr. Trump had raped her, as she had long claimed.

Ms. Carroll sued the former president last year, accusing him of shoving her against a wall and raping her in a dressing room the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan, in the mid 1990s.

Read more at the NY Times. https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1656016583356030993 https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1656021428955754496