A jury has found that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll – but that there was not enough evidence to say he had raped her.
The panel of six men and three women also found that Trump injured advice columnist Carroll in a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996 and defamed her when he called her a liar, ordering the former President to pay a total of $5million in damages.
They made their decision after just three hours of deliberation .
Carroll bowed her head as the verdict in the battery allegation was read out. As the defamation verdict was read she bowed it again, nodding in agreement. Afterwards she stood up and shook hands with Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina.
In a fiery post to Trump’s social media app Truth Social the former president wrote in all caps, ‘I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!’ He later posted, ‘VERY UNFAIR TRIAL!’