Jury Says Donald Trump Must Pay E. Jean Carroll $5 Million for Sexual Abuse and Defamation

A New York jury quickly reached the conclusion on Tuesday that Donald Trump sexually abused the journalist E. Jean Carroll, pummeling him with a $5 million punishment for forcing himself on her—and defaming her for years.

Ending a two-week civil trial in federal court, a nine-panel jury of New Yorkers concluded that the real estate mogul did, in fact, violently attack magazine journalist E. Jean Carroll in 1996—pinning her against a wall while she stood inside the fitting room at a high-end Manhattan clothing store Bergdorf Goodman.

But they also couldn't reach a liable conclusion that what he did could be classified as rape. Instead, they determined that whatever he did in that dressing room was nonconsensual sexual abuse—made all the worse by the way he caused damage to Carroll’s reputation when he resorted to chauvinist remarks and denied the attack ever happened. But they spared him the worst punishment of branding him as a rapist.

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