In an email to NPR, a lawyer representing Trump said the former president would appeal the decision. This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed," Carroll said in a statement. "Today, the world finally knows the truth. But they agreed that he "sexually abused" her and that he defamed her when he denied her story.Ĭarroll was awarded $5 million in total damages for both claims. The nine jurors, who deliberated for barely three hours before reaching their unanimous conclusion, did not find that Trump raped Carroll. Jean Carroll, who says he raped her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. NEW YORK - A federal jury has found former President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in the lawsuit brought by writer E.
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