2023-05-09 23:19:59
A federal jury in Manhattan, New York, has found Donald Trump guilty of having abused of the writer Elizabeth Jean Carroll in 1996, and also for having defamed her years later, when she denounced the case. However, the former president has not been convicted of rape. In addition, the judge has granted the writer compensation of five million of euros.
Despite how forceful the sentence may be for Trump, as it is a civil case there is no possibility of imprisonment resulting from it for the former president.
A case revealed 23 years later
E. Jean Carroll assured in a book published in 2019 that Donald Trump had raped her in a changing room of a department store in the mid-90s. At the end of April, he reaffirmed himself before the Justice in this procedure.
On the contrary, Trump has refused to testify in the present trial and at no time has he appeared. From the first accusations of the writer the former president denied the facts and he has even claimed never to have met her, even after a photo of both of them appeared, which the then tycoon assured was due to the fact that at that time he took photographs with many people at social events.
“This verdict is a shame”
After the verdict, Trump has insisted that “I have no idea who this woman is” and has assured that “this verdict is a shamethe continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time”.
For its part, the ex-president’s campaign team, who announced a few weeks ago that he wants to be a candidate in the 2024 presidential elections, has said that the verdict is due to political reasons: “In jurisdictions totally controlled by the Democratic Party, the judicial system of our nation is compromised by politicians of the extremist left. We have allowed completely fabricated and false claims by disturbed people to interfere in our elections, doing immense damage.”
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