The jury has found that the former US president sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll and that he defamed her when she publicly denounced the assault.
The ex-president donald trump He has been found guilty of “sexual abuse” and defamation, but not of sexual assault, in the case resulting from the writer’s complaints E.Jean Carroll.
This is indicated by the verdict that the New York jury that heard his case reached in record time.
Carroll accused Trump of having sexually assaulted her in the changing room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s, and also of defaming her when she decided to make her complaint public in a book she published in 2019.
In addition, the jury has ruled that Donald Trump must compensate Carroll with about 5 million dollars. Two of them for the damage caused and 2.7 million for what is related to her reputation. Despite this, there are no associated prison sentences.
Therefore, Donald Trump has been sentenced for the first time since he left the presidency of the United States.
“Shame”
The former US president has called the jury’s condemnatory verdict “shameful” and claims not to know the victim. “I have no idea who this woman is. This verdict is a shame, the continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time,” Donald Trump said through his social networks.
Given the verdict, the campaign that supports Trump has announced that it plans to appeal the ruling.
Along with this message, the team has also taken the opportunity to resume the electoral arguments that led to a debacle for Trump: “We have allowed false and totally fabricated complaints from disturbed people to interfere with our elections, causing great damage.”
Source: Eitb
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