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A United States jury has ruled that Donald Trump has been found guilty of sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s and for defaming her by branding her a liar.
The verdict was read out in a Manhattan federal court on Tuesday afternoon, just hours after jurors started deliberating following a seven-day trial.
Carroll had accused the former president, who wants a re-election in 2024, of sexually assaulting her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s.
She also stated that Trump defamed her by dismissing her story – told in a 2019 memoir – as a “con job”.
The nine-member jury has awarded about $5m in compensatory and punitive damages.
Problems of a Rape victim
Ms. Carroll spoke about the resistance she faced after coming forward with her rape allegation on the second day of her testimony while being questioned by her own attorneys.
Ms. Carroll claimed she was subjected to a “wave of slime” following Mr. Trump’s denial of the accusation and labeling her initial lawsuit against him as a “con job” on social media.
She claimed that many interpreted Mr. Trump’s comments to mean that she was “not his type” and that she was “too ugly to continue living.”
The case’s judge, Lewis Kaplan, also criticized Mr. Trump for his remarks on social media.
In comments that Mr. Kaplan deemed “entirely inappropriate,” the former president called the lawsuit a “made-up scam” and suggested Ms. Carroll’s attorney was a political operative.
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