2023-05-09 19:24:35
The jury of a civil court of New York said on Tuesday, May 9, Donald Trump responsible forsexual assault on a former journalist in 1996. The nine jurors determined that the former American president was not responsible for a “rape” as accused by the former newspaper columnist, E. Jean Carroll, reported American media including the New York Times and CNN.
The court also ruled that Donald Trump should pay some $5 million in damages for this sexual assault in a New York department store in 1996 and for defamation from the revelation of the facts in 2019.
“This verdict is a shame”, denounced the ex-president Trump on his social network Truth Social, reaffirming that he did not know the former columnist.
His campaign team said in a statement that he intended to appeal the decision.
After two weeks of trial, during which Donald Trump did not come to testify in Manhattan federal court, Judge Lewis Kaplan gave his instructions for more than an hour to nine jurors, six men and three women.
His plaintiff, E. Jean Carroll, 79, was very moved and hugged several of his lawyers and his entourage who had tears in their eyes.
The former tenant of the White House, who intends to regain the White House in 2024, has always denied the facts.
Donald Trump wrote ahead of the verdict that he ‘will appeal regardless of the outcome’
E. Jean Carroll had made her first revelations in 2019 in a book, where she accused for the first time Donald Trump, then president of the UNITED STATES. She had initially filed a complaint for defamation, because he had accused her of lying to sell his work.
Then, last November, she filed a rape lawsuit, thanks to a new New York state law allowing alleged victims to sue in civil court even for potentially statute-barred facts.
Two other women, among those who have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault in the past, also gave their testimony before the jury.
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