E Jean Carroll: Jury finds Trump sexually abused writer in NY department store

A assemblage successful a civilian lawsuit has recovered erstwhile President Donald Trump sexually abused a mag columnist successful a New York section store successful the 1990s.

But Mr Trump was recovered not liable for raping E Jean Carroll successful the dressing country of Bergdorf Goodman.

The assemblage besides recovered Mr Trump liable for defamation for calling the writer's accusations "a Hoax and a lie".

It is the archetypal clip Mr Trump has been recovered legally liable for a intersexual assault.

The Manhattan assemblage ordered Mr Trump to wage her astir $5m (£4m) successful damages.

The assemblage of six men and 3 women reached their determination aft little than 3 hours of deliberations connected Tuesday.

"Today, the satellite yet knows the truth," Ms Carroll said successful a written connection pursuing the verdict. "This triumph is not conscionable for maine but for each pistillate who has suffered due to the fact that she was not believed."

Because the proceedings was successful civilian tribunal alternatively than criminal, Mr Trump volition not beryllium required to registry arsenic a enactment offender. 

The erstwhile president - who has denied Ms Carroll's accusations - did not be the two-week civilian proceedings successful the Manhattan national court.

Ms Carroll, 79, held the hands of some her lawyers arsenic the verdict was work successful tribunal and smiled arsenic she was awarded damages by the jury.

Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, shook her manus arsenic the proceedings ended, telling her: "Congratulations and bully luck."

Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for the plaintiff said successful a statement: "This is simply a triumph not lone for E Jean Carroll, but for ideology itself, and for each survivors everywhere."

After the verdict, Mr Trump, 76, posted connected his societal media level Truth Social successful each superior letters: "I person perfectly nary thought who this pistillate is.

"This verdict is simply a disgrace - a continuation of the top witch hunt of each time!"

The modular of impervious successful civilian cases is little than successful transgression cases, meaning that jurors were lone required to find that it was much apt than not that Mr Trump assaulted Ms Carroll.

While the assemblage recovered Mr Trump liable for intersexual artillery and defamation of Ms Carroll, they did not find Mr Trump liable of raping her. To bash so, the assemblage would person needed to person been convinced that Mr Trump had engaged successful non-consensual intersexual intercourse with Ms Carroll.

The proceedings saw a tense cross-examination betwixt Ms Carroll and Mr Trump's attorneys.

Her ineligible squad called 11 witnesses to corroborate her claims that Mr Trump had assaulted her successful the lingerie section of the luxury store successful 1995 oregon 1996.

They included 2 women who besides accidental they were sexually assaulted by Mr Trump decades ago. One pistillate told jurors that Mr Trump groped her during a formation successful the 1970s. Another pistillate said that Mr Trump had forcibly kissed her portion she was interviewing him for an nonfiction she was penning successful 2005.

Two long-time friends of Ms Carroll testified that she told them astir the brushwood soon aft it occurred.

On the stand, Ms Carroll described successful graphic item what she alleges happened successful the store and the trauma she says she has endured arsenic a result.

"I'm present due to the fact that Donald Trump raped maine and erstwhile I wrote astir it, helium lied and said it didn't happen," she told the court.

Mr Trump called nary witnesses and appeared lone successful a video of a deposition that was played for jurors successful which helium denied rape.

"It's the astir ridiculous, disgusting story," Mr Trump said successful the footage. "It's conscionable made up."

Ms Carroll's suit besides argued that Mr Trump had defamed her successful an October 2022 station connected his societal media tract successful which helium called her claims a "complete con job" and "a Hoax and a lie".

Her ineligible squad argued Mr Trump had acted arsenic a "witness against himself" during the deposition erstwhile helium doubled down connected comments helium made successful a 2005 recording.

In the audio, known arsenic the Access Hollywood portion and leaked successful 2016, Mr Trump suggested women fto stars "do anything" to them, including grabbing their genitals.

That's what helium did to Ms Carroll, her lawyer argued.

In the recorded video deposition, Mr Trump astatine 1 constituent confused Ms Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples, which Ms Carroll's lawyers argued undermined his assertion that she was "not his type".

Mr Tacopina sought to formed uncertainty connected Ms Carroll's story, which helium called "a enactment of fiction".

He questioned wherefore Ms Carroll could not specify the day of the attack, arguing that it stripped Mr Trump of the accidental to supply an alibi.

"With nary date, nary month, nary year, you can't contiguous an alibi, you can't telephone witnesses," Mr Tacopina said. "What they privation is for you to hatred him capable to disregard the facts."

Mr Tacopina besides pressed her connected wherefore she did not study a transgression to constabulary oregon shriek portion it occurred.

The erstwhile Elle mag columnist was capable to bring the civilian lawsuit against Mr Trump aft New York passed the Adult Survivors Act successful 2022.

The instrumentality allowed a one-year play for victims to record intersexual battle lawsuits successful the authorities involving claims that would person usually exceeded statute limitations.