Donald Trump found liable in sexual abuse & defamation against E. Jean Carroll

Donald Trump found liable in sexual abuse & defamation against E. Jean Carroll

E. Jean Carroll, a writer and journalist from New York Magazine, covered an issue in 2019 to promote her book. She described two sexual assaults in the book: one by Les Moonves, then head of CBS, and another by Donald Trump. Carroll said that Trump raped her in the dressing rooms of Bergdorf Goodman during the 1990s. She told her friends about the incident, but did not go to Bergdorf or the police. She knew even then that Trump would do everything to destroy her. Carroll filed a civil lawsuit against Trump in 2019 for assault, defamation, and rape. He...

E. Jean Carroll, a writer and journalist from New York Magazine, covered an issue in 2019 to promote her book. She described two sexual assaults in the book: one by Les Moonves, then head of CBS, and another by Donald Trump. Carroll said that Trump raped her in the dressing rooms of Bergdorf Goodman during the 1990s. She told her friends about the incident, but did not go to Bergdorf or the police. She knew even then that Trump would do everything to destroy her. Carroll filed a civil lawsuit against Trump in 2019 for assault, defamation, and rape. He dismissed her claim as he had done with so many other women who he had preyed on, raped, and assaulted. The civil trial lasted for several weeks before the case was presented to the jury. The jury returned a unanimous verdict in just three hours: Trump is responsible for defamation and sexual abuse. A Manhattan jury found Donald J. Trump liable on Tuesday for sexual abuse and defamation against magazine writer E. Jean Carroll. The jury awarded her damages of $5 million. This was a civil trial which attracted wide attention and sought to extend the #MeToo era of accountability to a prominent political figure. The jury, which consisted of six men, three women, and one woman, found that Donald Trump, aged 76, had defamed Carroll in an October statement he made on his Truth Social site, calling the case "a hoax and a falsehood" and a "complete con job." In its verdict, the jury said that Ms. Carroll did not prove, by a majority of evidence, that she was raped by Mr. Trump, as she has long claimed. Ms. Carroll filed a lawsuit against the former president in 2012, accusing him he pushed her up against a wall in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s, and then raped her. Ms. Carroll is the first woman to successfully testify in a court of law about sexual misconduct allegations made by Mr. Trump. The jury found that Carroll also proved that Trump had injured her by publishing his denials of her allegations on his Truth Social page in October 2022. The jury found that Ms. Carroll proved by clear and compelling evidence that Mr. Trump was aware that his statement was false, when he claimed that her accusation was an hoax. This legal standard is known as "actual maliciousness." The New York Times A grotesque moment in this trial was when Trump mistook an old photo of Carroll as Marla maples. This proved that Carroll was indeed his type, being blonde, beautiful and leggy. In another section of his deposition he was questioned about the Access Hollywood recording, in which Trump said to Billy Bush, "When you are a star they let you do that." Grab them by the pssy and you can do anything. When asked if he meant that, Trump responded: "Well historically, stars have always been true." You can see that this has been true for the past million years. "Unfortunately or fortunately." I am extremely proud of E. Jean Carroll, and I wish her safety and security. I hope that she is surrounded by family and friends, and that she is protecting herself. She knew that the process of suing Trump was going to be long and arduous, and it was. But she persevered and got a small amount of justice. It's still not "enough," yet it is something. Backgrid and Cover Images provided the photos.