E Jean Carroll has the last word as ex-president rants about ‘unfair’ verdict – live

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York liked a series of tweets calling on CNN to cancel her scheduled public meeting with former President Donald Trump after a jury found Trump liable for her sexual abuse in a civil trial.

A jury in New York found Donald Trump responsible for the sexual abuse of writer E Jean Carroll.

Carroll, 79, sued the former president for raping her in a dressing room at a Bergdorf Goodman in New York in 1996 and then “destroying” her reputation when he claimed she was lying.

The jury did not find Trump responsible for raping Carroll.

“Thanks to five brave women coming together, E Jean Carroll won her sexual assault and defamation case against Donald Trump. Five Women Said Yes I Will Defy Haters, Threats, Public Attacks From Trump Supporters; yes, I will hold my head high and walk into that courtroom; yes, I will answer all the questions that are put to me with serenity and dignity; yes, I will endure cross-examination by Trump’s lawyers; yes, I will do everything, I will overcome the natural terror that anyone would feel when doing this, the anxiety, the sleeplessness, because enough is enough, because justice matters. And that’s exactly what they did.”

Andres Feinberg explains how a chance meeting led to a civil lawsuit for rape and defamation nearly thirty years later.

Attorney Joe Tacopina led the legal team representing former President Donald Trump in the civil rape lawsuit against the former elle advice columnist E Jean Carroll.

Tacopina congratulated Carroll and wished her “good luck” after the jury in the civil case returned a verdict that Trump was responsible for sexually abusing her in the dressing room of a New York City department store in 1995 or nineteen ninety six.

“However, the Carroll v Trump trial provided some surprisingly useful examples of how we might want to handle rape and sexual assault cases in the future. Obviously, those cases will always involve untold amounts of pain and trauma. Obviously, in an ideal world, those tests wouldn’t even be necessary, because the bugs they’re designed to fix wouldn’t exist. But if rape and sexual assault are to continue to be prevalent in our world, then yes, we owe it to ourselves and to each other to make sure the justice system is equipped to handle it…”

You can read Clémence Michallon’s full article here.

A New York jury in Ms. Carroll’s civil case returned a verdict on May 9 that Trump was responsible for sexually abusing Ms. Carroll, but not raping her, awarding the writer a total of $5 million in damages, which includes the defamation claim.

The video of the statement was posted in response to a records request made by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

Graig Graziosi has the story.

Nearly two decades later, her experience with the future president allegedly “forcing his tongue” down her throat could have been essential testimony in the civil rape trial of E Jean Carroll that began April 25 in federal court in the city of NY.

“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!” Trump wrote in Truth Social on Tuesday.

A photo of Trump meeting with Carroll was shown during the trial.

Gustaf Kilander and Bevan Hurley report.