Tuesday, President Donald Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation by a federal jury in Manhattan. The allegations came from E Jean Carroll who alleged Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room decades ago. Trump has been ordered to pay her $5 million in damages. Jurors rejected the claim that Trump raped Carroll.
On Truth Social, Trump wrote: I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!
The verdict was reached in less than three hours.
More from the NY Post:
Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read in Manhattan federal court — and nodded when she heard the jury finding in favor of her defamation claim for Trump, 76, branding her a liar when she came forward with her allegations.The nine-person jury — three women and six men — decided the case after three hours of deliberations that began just before noon Tuesday.Neither Carroll nor her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, spoke to the mass of reporters outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse as they left hand in hand, with the former “Ask E. Jean” columnist breezing through the crowd and into a waiting car.“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social following the verdict.The jurors rejected Carroll’s claim in her 2019 suit that Trump had raped her, but found him liable for sexual abuse. Carroll had accused Trump of attacking her in a fitting room at the Fifth Avenue department store, most likely in 1996. He has denied her allegations.Watchers in the court gallery cried tears of joy when the verdict finding Trump liable for sexual abuse was read.
Earlier this week, footage of Trump’s deposition in relation to this case was released:
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