A Manhattan federal jury’s ruling in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of rape has drawn a muted reaction from Trump’s top 2024 Republican competitors.
The nine-person jury ruled Tuesday that Trump is liable for battery and defamation and ordered the former president to pay Carroll $5 million in combined damages. Jurors were asked to determine whether there was more than a 50 percent chance that Trump assaulted Carroll in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan in the mid 1990s, as she has claimed. The jury found that Trump most likely sexually assaulted Carroll but rejected the allegation that he raped her. The jury also decided that an October 2022 post from Trump on his Truth Social platform calling her allegations a “hoax” did, in fact, defame Carroll.
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