Donald Trump Found Responsible for Sexual Assault in New York Court

According to American media, Donald Trump has been found responsible for sexual assault by a civil court in New York. After two weeks of trial, where Donald Trump did not come to testify in federal court in Manhattan, the jurors, six men and three women, agreed with the plaintiff, the former columnist for Elle magazine E. Jean Carroll. She accused the former president of the United States of sexual assault in a fitting room of a New York department store, Bergdorf Goodman, in the spring of 1996. The jury, on the other hand, rejected the accusation of rape. According to the New York Times, the jury condemned Donald Trump to pay $5 million in damages to his victim. The deliberation lasted less than three hours. Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced a “shameful verdict” and assured not to have “absolutely no idea who this woman is” on his Truth Social network.

In an interview given to New York Magazine in June 2019 E Jean Carroll revealed that she had been raped in the 1990s by the former Republican president, in a fitting room at the New York luxury store Bergdorf Goodman. “He lowers his fly and sticks his fingers in my private parts, then his penis”, told the former columnist to the magazine, for which she had posed in One, dressed in the same black dress as at the time of the facts. The one who was then still president directly refutes the accusations and calls them “hoax and complete lie”.

A month later, Elizabeth Jean Carroll publishes her book «What do we need men for», where she denounces the 21 most perverse men she has met, and returns to the rape that Donald Trump allegedly subjected her to. New swerve of the billionaire, with the elegance that we know him: he assures that the ex-journalist is not “his kind of women” and that his book “should be placed in the fiction department”. To defend, he even denied knowing the alleged victim as a photo shows him hilariously with her at a reception in 1997.

In November 2019, the writer sued her alleged attacker for defamation in civil proceedings. As for the rape charges, she did not press charges because the facts were prescribed and Trump had presidential immunity. Until a law comes into force last November in the State of New York. The Adult Survivors Act allows victims of sexual assault to resume their civil lawsuit within one year. Elizabeth Jean Carroll therefore reiterated her complaint for “defamation” by adding the mentions “assault” (act violating human rights) and “assault”.

Absent in court, the former president had reaffirmed his line of defense in his sworn deposition in October: “I will say this with the greatest respect: first of all, she is not my type; then it never happened.” At 79, she hoped to obtain damages at the end of the trial, accusing Donald Trump of “having groped, groped and raped her”. She won the case.