2023-05-10 06:30:00
The Republican tycoon Donald Trump is responsible for sexually assaulting and defaming the journalist E. Jean Carroll and, for the same reason –despite his attempts to disqualify the New York federal court that resolved the file–, he will have to repair it with 5 millions of dollars in damages.
The judge in the case, Lewis Kaplan, did not ask the jury to determine whether the former president and now candidate to return to the White House was guilty of raping the columnist, but rather whether he considered him civilly responsible for the rape that Carroll claimed to have suffered in the changing rooms of a luxury department store in New York in 1996.
This means that his political career does not stop, since it is an administrative sentence and not a criminal one, but Trump took the opportunity to describe it as “shame.” In addition, on the Truth Social network, he added that “I have absolutely no idea who this woman is.”
Carroll, 79, sued Trump last year for rape and defamation after he accused her of committing a “complete scam”, “falsehood” and “lie” after the publication of a book (2019) in the one who revealed the sexual assault.
Carroll acknowledged at the trial – which lasted two weeks and in which Trump did not appear – that she felt “ashamed” by this attack, which, she said, has prevented her from maintaining a sentimental relationship since then. “It took me a long time to realize that staying silent doesn’t work,” she warned.
Carroll’s defense called two other women who said they were victims of sexual assault by Trump as witnesses in the trial. One of them, executive Jessica Leeds, claimed in court that Trump improperly touched her on a flight in the 1970s.
The journalist Natasha Stoynoff assured, for her part, that the tycoon had kissed her without her consent during an interview at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in 2005.
In addition, about a dozen women accused Trump of sexual assault before the 2016 election, in which he became president of the United States.
The Republican, who aspires to return to the White House in the 2024 elections, has always denied the accusations and until now had never been convicted by justice.
In any case, Trump did not testify during the trial nor did his defense call any witnesses, but in a video of the affidavit he made to Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, last October and shown to the jury, he calls out the ex-journalist of “liar” and “sick”.
Trump’s lawyers accuse her of concocting the assault for “money, political reasons and status.”
Carroll took refuge in a law enacted in November in the State of New York, which gave victims of sexual assaults a period of one year to sue their alleged attackers for attacks that had prescribed.
And, for this reason, he accused Trump of assault, “when he raped and groped her by force”, and of defamation for comments that caused “reputational, emotional and professional damage”. And justice gave him the reason.
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