Jury Says Trump Must Pay $5 Million for “Sexually Abusing” Writer E. Jean Carroll

One of the funniest things I’ve seen from Trump in a while was at this trial. He said he wouldn’t have raped this woman because “she’s not my type,” which is basically a way of saying “no, I wouldn’t rape you, you’re too ugly.”

Then, for no reason other than because he’s Donald Trump, he told the woman’s Jew lawyer “frankly, you’re not my type either.”

Reuters:

Donald Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her by branding her a liar, a jury decided on Tuesday.

“Today, the world finally knows the truth,” Carroll said in a statement. “This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed.”

The former U.S. president, campaigning to retake the White House in 2024, will appeal, his lawyer Joseph Tacopina told reporters outside the Manhattan federal courthouse.

Carroll, 79, testified during the civil trial that Trump, 76, raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan in either 1995 or 1996, then harmed her reputation by writing in an October 2022 post on his Truth Social platform that her claims were a “complete con job,” “a hoax” and “a lie.”

Trump was absent throughout the trial which began on April 25. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called the verdict a “disgrace” and said, “I have absolutely no idea who this woman is.”

Because it was a civil case, Trump faces no criminal consequences and, as such, there was never a threat of prison.

The jury, required to reach a unanimous verdict, deliberated for just under three hours. Its six men and three women awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages, but Trump will not have to pay so long as the case is on appeal.

It seems unlikely in America’s polarized political climate that the civil verdict will have an impact on Trump’s core supporters, who view his legal woes as part of a concerted effort by opponents to undermine him.

The folks that are anti-Trump are going to remain that way, the core pro-Trump voters are not going to change, and the ambivalent ones I just don’t think are going to be moved by this type of thing,” said Charlie Gerow, a Republican strategist in Pennsylvania.

Carroll testified that she bumped into Trump at Bergdorf’s and agreed to help him pick out a gift for another woman. The two looked at lingerie before he coaxed her into a dressing room, slammed her head into a wall, pulled down her tights and penetrated her, she testified. Carroll said she could not remember the precise date or year the alleged rape occurred.

Jurors were tasked with deciding whether Trump raped, sexually abused or forcibly touched Carroll, and were separately asked if Trump defamed Carroll. The jurors found Trump sexually abused her but not that he raped her.

Before the jurors began deliberating, Judge Lewis Kaplan defined rape for them as non-consensual “sexual intercourse” through “forcible compulsion.” He described sexual abuse as non-consensual “sexual contact” through forcible compulsion.

Jurors awarded Carroll $2 million in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages for her battery claim, and $2.7 million in compensatory and $280,000 in punitive damages for her defamation claim.

Trump’s legal team attacked the plausibility of Carroll’s account including why she had never reported the matter to police or screamed during the alleged incident.

This is just a joke, and epitomizes the total collapse of the American system of justice.

Trump, a famous billionaire, was prowling around department stores and then raping women in changing rooms?

It’s cartoonish – which is fitting, since this bitch looks like Daffy Duck.

No one believes this is real. I don’t believe the people supporting it believe it is real. These people just do not have any respect for anything, and view the justice system as a weapon, like everything else.

The left – and by that I mean “the Jews” – is involved in “total war.”

Meanwhile, the right is following the rules and whining that the left doesn’t follow the rules. And then when they prove the left doesn’t follow the rules, they act like they’ve won something, even as the left is laughing at them because they don’t even claim to follow the rules.

Interestingly, the Jew lawyer for the supposed rape victim, Roberta Kaplan, was the woman who sued the Charlottesville protesters under the claim that the protest was a terrorist attack. She sued them for terrorism in civil court. Imagine it.

She was very open about the fact that her goal was to harm the right-wing because she is Jewish and hates white people, and somehow the judge allowed her to just say stuff like that in interviews, then ruled in her favor (because the US Justice System is a joke).

The Jew Kaplan, who is also a lesbian, was also one of the top attorneys arguing in favor of so-called “anal marriage” before the Supreme Court.

It’s amazing the way these Jews get around.