Politics JURY: TRUMP SEXUALLY ABUSED, DEFAMED CARROLL MUST PAY $5M IN DAMAGES

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was found liable of sexual abuse and defamation — and ordered to pay more than $5 million in damages — by a federal jury in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room decades ago.

The nine person jury — three women and six men — decided the case after three hours of deliberations that began just before noon Tuesday.

The jurors found that Carroll, 79, proved her 2019 lawsuit claiming that the 45th president raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room — most likely in 1996.

They also found in favor of Carroll on her claim that the ex-president defamed her in a lengthy Oct. 12, 2022 Truth Social post claiming her accusations were a “hoax.”

The decision comes after eight days of trial spread over three weeks, where the jury heard from 11 witnesses including Carroll, two other Trump accusers and two pals who Carroll confided in about the alleged attack.

Trump did not attend the trial but the jury saw clips of his video deposition. He also didn’t call any witnesses or present any evidence.

Carroll took the witness stand for three days recounting how she ran into the real estate mogul at the Fifth Avenue department store that was across from Trump Tower most likely in the spring of 1996.

Carroll — who had a successful column in Elle Magazine at the time — agreed to help Trump find a gift for a woman and the pair walked through the store flirting and exchanging banter, she said.

Trump led her to a desolate sixth-floor lingerie department where he tossed a see-through negligee at Carroll asking her to try it on, she claimed. But Carroll jokingly threw the lacy one-piece back at Trump telling him to try it on, she claimed.

Then Trump led her into an open fitting where he pinned her against the wall and bumped her head twice, during what she called, a “fight,” Carroll testified.

Trump then penetrated her with his fingers and later with his penis, she claimed, saying she could “still feel the pain,” of his fingers inside her.

Friend Lisa Birnbach told jurors that a “hyperventilating” Carroll called her just minutes after the alleged attack. Birbach said she advised Carroll to go to the police even offering to accompany her. But Carroll was insistent that she didn’t want to report the incident and swore Birnbach to secrecy, the pal said.

Two other Trump accusers, Natasha Stoynoff and Jessica Leeds, were also called by Carroll to tell jurors about incidents where they alleged Trump sexually assaulted them.

Leeds, 81, claimed that Trump groped and tried to kiss her on a plane in the late 1970s and then when she saw him years later he said, “You’re that c–t woman from the airplane.”

Stoynoff, a journalist, told jurors that Trump came onto her in 2005 while she was at Mar-a-Lago working on a piece for Trump and Melania’s one year anniversary.

Melania — who was pregnant at the time — was off changing while Trump forcibly kissed Stoynoff who was freed from his grasp when a butler interrupted, Stoynoff testified through tears.

Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan told jurors during closing arguments Monday that Leeds and Stoynoff’s claims showed that what happened to Carroll wasn’t a one-off incident.

Kaplan claimed that Trump is a habitual liar and blasted that he “didn’t even bother” to show up at trial.

Carroll’s side repeatedly brought up the infamous 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape where Trump was unwittingly recorded saying that he grabbed women “by the p—y” and that they let him because he’s a star.

Kaplan claimed that this was Trump saying how he treated women. But Trump claimed in his deposition that this video was simply “locker room talk.”

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina told the jury during his closings that Carroll’s claims were a “work of fiction.”

The fact that Carroll never went to the police and the fact that she couldn’t recall the exact date of the alleged assault were just a few of the indications that she made up the thing.

Trump has claimed that Carroll, Birnbach and a third friend — that Carroll told about the alleged assault — were all political operatives who cooked up the allegations to hurt Trump’s presidency. He’s also claimed that Carroll made up the story to push the sale of her book.


https://nypost.com/2023/05/09/trump-must-pay-e-jean-carroll-tktk-after-found-liable-of-rape/

 

No, he didn't settle and this is a civil trial. Being forced to apologize would destroy any chance of an appeal.

 

Yea. When did he ever say Sorry, my mistake.

 

Lets See: Cosby and Weinstein with the Huckleberries in the background.

 

That was a Kodak moment when he picked Marla, in the photo, instead of E. Jean Carrol.