Trump Found Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation in E. Jean Carroll Case, Ordered To Pay $5 Million in Damages

The verdict marks the first instance of an American president being found liable by a jury for sexual assault.

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E. Jean Carroll and President Trump. AP

Less than three hours after its deliberations began, a Manhattan jury has found that President Trump more likely than not sexually abused author E. Jean Carroll at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and agreed with the statement that the former president defamed her character in denying her claims when they were first made in 2019. 

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