On May 9, a New York civil court jury declared Donald Trump perpetrator of sexual assault against the reporter E. Jean Caroll. But although the former US president was ordered to pay him $5 million in damages, the jury still dismissed the rape charge.
But this Wednesday, July 19, the federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan, turned. While Donald Trump wanted to file a lawsuit against the journalist for libel, this judge issued, in a 59-page decision, an opinion stating that the former US president had indeed assaulted E. John Carroll. According to him, it’s not because the assault didn’t fit the definition of rape under New York law that he didn’t violate it.
As a result, Trump was denied a retrial in the case, this time for defamation of the reporter, although his appeal is still pending.
Judge says evidence against Trump is ‘compelling’
” As the evidence at trial clearly shows, the jury found that Mr. Trump had indeed done exactly as described », Judge Kaplan wrote in his note. According to him, the colossal sum of damages owed to him does not come out of nowhere:
This jury did not award Ms. Carroll more than $2 million for fondling her breasts through her clothing, reprehensible as that might be. There was no evidence of such behavior. Instead, the evidence convincingly established, and the jury found by implication, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with her fingers, causing immediate pain and long-lasting emotional and psychological damage.
The judge Lewis A. Kaplan
The former columnist SHE US accuses the former president of having raped her in a dressing room of the New York department store Bergdorf Goodman, in the spring of 1996. Assault of which he had testified in an interview with New York Magazine in June 2019. “Lower the flap and push your fingers into my private parts, then his penis”she had told E. Jean Carroll magazine, for which she had posed in One, dressed in the same black dress she was wearing at the time of the events.
E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump will once again face off in court at January 2024. The journalist filed a complaint against the former president for defamation, the latter called it ” crazy »claiming he would never meet her, not knowing who she was, or even making a ” rotten work ». He also denounced a made up story “.
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Source: Madmoizelle
Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
