A jury in New York federal court on Tuesday found former President Donald Trump guilty of sexually abusing journalist E. Jean Carroll, for which he will have to pay $5 million in damages.
According to the complaint, Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in a fitting room at a luxury department store in Manhattan in 1996.
In 2019, Carroll dared to tell publicly what happened in a book, however, he did not achieve what was expected and in October 2022 Trump described on his social network, TruthSocial, the accusations as a "scam."
Today, the jury found that Trump defamed Carroll in that post.
In record time, a jury made up of nine members, three women and six men, presented the verdict, in which, although they rejected the accusation of rape presented by Carroll, they determined that there was sexual abuse.
Because this is a civil rather than criminal trial, Trump has not been convicted of any crime and faces no prison time. However, he will have to pay the $5 million settlement.
Carroll is not the first woman to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct, but she is the only one to go to trial at a difficult time for the re-election candidate, who faces multiple lawsuits, prosecutors and politicians.
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