In a trial that lasted only two weeks and with a jury that made a decision in less than three hours, the Americans attended this Tuesday the first conviction verdict against former President Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll, the only one that managed to bring to fruition the numerous complaints expressed by several more women for inappropriate sexual conduct.
The ex-president Donald Trump confirmed this Wednesday on his social network Truth Social that he intends to appeal the verdict of the jury that yesterday found him guilty of sexual abuse and defamation against the writer E. Jean Carroll.
According to the sentence pronounced yesterday by the jury, Trump must pay five million dollars to Carroll.
Jean Carroll said for her part that she had taken the case to court “to clear his name and get his life back.”
He mentioned the above just before dedicating the verdict to “Every woman who has suffered because they did not believe her.”
“Hopefully, justice will be delivered on appeal,” Trump wrote on Truth Social today in his trademark all-caps style. After this, he returned to proclaim that he did not even know Carroll, as he already said yesterday: “I have no idea who this woman is.”
Shortly before, he had interpreted that the true meaning of the trial was actually political and sought to hinder his candidacy for the presidential elections next year.
“This whole witch hunt has to do with electoral interference,” he wrote, although he later joked that “it seems that (the operation) is going backwards for those outcasts of the radical left.”
The Trump campaign team already alluded yesterday to the political nature of the trial, implicitly acknowledging that it may affect Trump’s candidacy.
Let us remember that it is, so far, the best placed among the confirmed Republican candidates -It remains to be determined if Ron DeSantis will appear- and also above that of President Joe Biden, who is running for re-election.
