The former US president was accused of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll in a department store then defaming her by stating she made up the story
Donald Trump did not rape former columnist E. Jean Carroll but did sexually abuse her, jurors have ruled.
The Mirror reports that Ms Carroll, 79, will be awarded a total of $3m in damages, $2.7m of which are compensatory and $280,000 of which are punitive after Mr Trump was found to have defamed E Jean Carroll in October 2022 after he posted on Truth social and called her allegations a "con job." However, Ms Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, cited excerpts from Trump's October deposition and his notorious comments on a 2005 "Access Hollywood" video in which he said celebrities can grab women between the legs without asking. She urged jurors to believe her client.
"In a very real sense, Donald Trump is a witness against himself," she said. "He knows what he did. He knows that he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll."
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