A federal jury in Manhattan, N.Y., ruled that former President Donald Trump sexually abused and assaulted writer Carol in a department store locker room in the spring of 1996, according to a comprehensive foreign media report, on 9 local time. The nine-member jury found Trump liable for the underlying lawsuit and paid $5 million in damages to Carroll. Because the case was a civil action, Trump will not suffer criminal consequences.
“I have absolutely no idea who this woman is,” Trump posted on his social media platforms in the face of the ruling, “This ruling is a disgrace – a continuation of the greatest political persecution ever! ” Joe Tacopina, an attorney representing Trump, said Trump will appeal the ruling.
The jury of six men and three women reportedly deliberated for several hours on the afternoon of May 9 before reaching a unanimous verdict.
The New York Times reported that in the civil case, the federal jury found that Carroll, 79, had not sufficiently proven that Trump “raped” her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store nearly 30 years ago, as she had long claimed. However, the jury found that Trump was responsible for a lesser degree of sexual assault (sexual assault).
The report also said that as many as a dozen allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump, but this is the only one that has so far been successful in front of a jury.
The Guardian noted that the verdict is the first time a former U.S. president has been legally classified as a sexual predator. But because this was a civil case rather than a criminal one, the only legal sanction Trump faced was a fine.
In addition to the $2 million in damages, the jury also awarded Carroll another $3 million, as Trump has repeatedly and publicly called Carroll’s allegations a “scam” and an “outright fraud.
Carroll first filed a defamation lawsuit in 2019 and accused Trump of “raping” her in the mid-1990s, which Trump vehemently denied.
Trump, 76, announced in November 2022 that he was running again for president of the United States. Before that, he was criminally charged for the “hush money” case, becoming the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges. But he said he would continue to run for president even if he was found guilty.
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