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☆ It's been years since the 2020 election but Trump's still saying anyone who thinks he lost is 'very stupid'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It's been more than two years and Trump still can't acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election. CNN host Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about his election loss during a town hall in New Hampshire. But Trump told CNN that he thinks anyone who accepts the 2020 election result is "very stupid." "Your first term ended with a deadly riot at the Capitol, and you still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election result. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, but Trump has stuck to his guns and groundlessly claimed that the vote was rigged.

☆ E. Jean Carroll's team wanted to dismiss a juror during the Trump sexual abuse and defamation trial who described Tim Pool's podcast as 'balanced'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New filings from E. Jean Carroll's case against Donald Trump reveal her team sought to dismiss a juror. On April 30, Carroll's team moved to dismiss Juror No. The juror was ultimately allowed to stay on after a judge rejected the request from Carroll's team, according to Politico. Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages for the sexual abuse and defamation claims. 77 was among the nine jurors who unanimously found Trump was liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of Carroll.

☆ Sex-assault survivors unleash firestorm after CNN let Trump try to re-victimize E. Jean Carroll at town hall
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Laura Italiano | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A day after a jury found Trump sexually violated E. Jean Carroll, he mocked her as a "whack job" on CNN. CNN let Trump try to re-victimize his own sex-assault victim in front of millions, victim advocates said. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has said she is a survivor of sexual assault, slammed CNN's town hall with Trump as "shameful." "As a sexual assault survivor I'm disgusted with @CNN," tweeted @Irishrygirl. She explained how for many survivors of sexual assault the "pain" that comes with being disbelieved "is deeply harmful over and above the harms of sexual assault itself."

☆ Trump Loses a Sexual Abuse Suit
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Manchester, N.H., April 27. Photo: BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERSDoes it matter politically now that a jury has found Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation against a woman who said he assaulted her sometime in the 1990s? It’s impossible to know what really happened in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store when Donald Trump met E. Jean Carroll . There were no witnesses, Ms. Carroll can’t recall the exact year it happened, and she waited until 2019 to go public with her story. Mr. Trump denies it happened and said Ms. Carroll isn’t his “type.”

☆ Trump may have shot himself in the foot by not testifying in the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case because its 'very hard' to win without even showing up, ex-prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday. After deliberating for 2 1/2 hours, a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse against Carroll in an incident that took place in the 1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. The jury did not find Trump liable for rape, which was an option. "There wasn't even a 'he said,' because Donald Trump never even looked you in the eye and said she was a liar," he said. Donald Trump, on the other hand, failed to even show up in court."

☆ E. Jean Carroll's lawyer promised they'll make Trump pay up the $5 million she's owed — but wouldn't say how
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

E. Jean Carroll's lawyer promised Donald Trump will pay up the $5 million in damages he owes. A jury on Tuesday found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in 1996. Trump's lawyer in the case, Joe Tacopina, maintained that they plan to appeal the case and won't have to pay Carroll anything quite yet. A Manhattan jury on Tuesday found the former president liable of sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million total in damages.

☆ E. Jean Carroll says verdict in Trump abuse case is a victory for all victims of sexual assault
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Shawna Mizelle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Washington CNN —E. Jean Carroll said Wednesday that a Manhattan federal jury’s finding that Donald Trump sexually abused her in the spring of 1996 – awarding her $5 million for battery and defamation – is a victory for all women who are victims of sexual assault. “The old view of the perfect victim was a woman who always screamed. Now this verdict is for all women.”Asked by Harlow what she was thinking when the jury did not find that Carroll proved Trump raped her, Carroll said, “Well, I just immediately (said) in my own head, ‘Oh, yes, he did. Oh yes, he did.’” When she shook hands with Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina, she said to him, “he did it. Trump has denied all wrongdoing and does not face any jail time as a result of the civil verdict.

☆ Fact-checking Trump’s CNN town hall in New Hampshire
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +26 min

CNN —CNN hosted a town hall with 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night in New Hampshire. 2020 ElectionJust minutes after the town hall began, Trump claimed the 2020 election was “rigged.”Facts First: This is Trump’s regular lie. Trump claimed Wednesday that he got gas prices down to $1.87 – and “even lower” – but they increased to $7, $8 or even $9 under Biden. The Presidential Records Act says that the moment a president leaves office, the National Archives and Records Administration gets legal custody and control of all presidential records from his administration. First, there’s no provision for negotiating over Presidential records at the end of a term.

☆ E. Jean Carroll elated at verdict that Trump sexually abused her
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The verdict in Manhattan federal court represented a fresh legal setback for Trump as he seeks to regain the presidency in 2024. Yesterday was probably the happiest day of my life," Carroll told ABC's "Good Morning America." "He said terrible things about me," Carroll said, referring to Trump, "dragged me through the mud, ground my face in the dirt." Carroll described holding hands with her lawyer as the verdict was read. "He gave them more process than even anyone else ever gets," Kaplan said on "Good Morning America."

☆ E. Jean Carroll's lawyer said Trump 'was basically a witness against himself'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

E. Jean Carroll's lawyer said Donald Trump was "a witness against himself." A Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in 1996. "There's no question that both of those things helped our case," Kaplan said. In his deposition, Trump's comment came after he said anyone who is a "star" can largely get away with grabbing women. On Tuesday, a Manhattan jury unanimously found Trump liable of sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996.

☆ $5 Million in Damages
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( German Lopez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Yesterday, a jury found the former president liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of the magazine writer E. Jean Carroll, ordering him to pay her $5 million. The case was a civil trial, which means that Trump is not subject to prison time. But the verdict indicates that jurors believed Carroll’s claim that Trump assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. She said that she saw him outside the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan nearly three decades ago, and that he had asked her to help find a gift for a female friend. Trump then motioned her into a dressing room, where he threw her against the wall, used his weight to pin her down and raped her, according to Carroll.

NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - Donald Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her by branding her a liar, a jury decided on Tuesday. Its six men and three women awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages, but Trump will not have to pay so long as the case is on appeal. Trump has cited the Carroll trial in campaign fundraising emails as evidence of what he portrays as a Democratic plot. TRUMP MISTAKES CARROLL FOR EX-WIFECarroll testified that she bumped into Trump at Bergdorf's and agreed to help him pick out a gift for another woman. Jurors were tasked with deciding whether Trump raped, sexually abused or forcibly touched Carroll, and were separately asked if Trump defamed Carroll.

The jury deliberated for just under three hours before rejecting Trump's denial that he assaulted Carroll. Trump has cited the Carroll trial in campaign fundraising emails as evidence of what he portrays as a Democratic plot to damage him politically. Jurors were tasked with deciding whether Trump raped, sexually abused or forcibly touched Carroll, any one of which would satisfy her claim of battery. Kaplan, Carroll's lawyer, told jurors during closing arguments on Monday that the 2005 video was proof that Trump had assaulted Carroll and other women. Previously Trump had said he could not have raped Carroll because she was "not my type."

Jurors were tasked with deciding whether Trump raped, sexually abused or forcibly touched Carroll, any one of which would satisfy her claim of battery. The trial featured testimony from two women who said Trump sexually assaulted them decades ago. Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, told jurors during closing arguments on Monday that the 2005 video was proof that Trump had assaulted Carroll and other women. Carroll testified that she bumped into Trump at Bergdorf's while he was shopping for a gift for another woman. Trump has cited the Carroll trial in campaign fundraising emails as evidence of what he portrays as a Democratic plot to damage him politically.

In a civil suit like Carroll’s, the jury must determine whether Carroll’s legal team proved that Trump committed battery against Carroll by a preponderance of the evidence. They must also determine that she proved by clear and convincing evidence that the statement was false, and that Trump made the statement with actual malice. Both the preponderance of the evidence standard and the clear and convincing evidence standard are not as high a standard as proof beyond a reasonable doubt, which is used in criminal cases. Clear and convincing evidence is higher than preponderance of the evidence, which means more likely than not. Clear and convincing evidence leaves no substantial doubt in the juror’s mind and establishes that the proposition is highly probable.

☆ Donald Trump Found Liable for Defamation, Sexual Abuse in Civil Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( James Fanelli | Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In an edited deposition video released as a trial exhibit in the civil rape case filed by E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump, he said that looking “over the last million years” it has been largely true that celebrities can grab women by the genitals. Photo: Trial ExhibitA federal jury found Donald Trump liable to E. Jean Carroll for battery and defamation and ordered him to pay $5 million in damages, after a civil trial in which the columnist alleged the former president raped her in a Manhattan department store nearly 30 years ago. The jury, following a two-week civil trial, didn’t find that Mr. Trump committed rape but found it more likely than not that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll in a dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman, sometime around 1996. Jurors also found that Mr. Trump defamed Ms. Carroll in comments he made denying her allegations, which she first made publicly in 2019.

The jury found that Ms. Carroll had not proved, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Mr. Trump had raped her, as she had long claimed. Jury members had the option of finding Mr. Trump liable for sexual abuse or for forcible touching, which are less serious charges than rape under state law. Ms. Carroll sued the former president last year. Its findings are civil, not criminal, meaning Mr. Trump has not been convicted of any crime and faces no prison time. Sexual abuse is defined in New York as subjecting a person to sexual contact without consent.

☆ Opinion | The Fury of #MeToo Finally Comes for the Man Who Inspired It
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With the $5 million verdict against Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll trial, the #MeToo movement comes full circle. Trump’s election in 2016, after he’d been heard boasting of sexual assault on the “Access Hollywood” tape and accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women, set off a tsunami of female fury. The #MeToo movement is why E. Jean Carroll wrote the memoir in which she revealed that Trump violated her in a Bergdorf Goodman changing room in the mid-1990s. And because of her perseverance, Trump will, for the first time, face legal accountability for his treatment of women. Because of the #MeToo movement, the man who started it all gets some measure of comeuppance.

☆ CNN still plans to host a Trump town hall this week even after a jury found him liable of sexual abuse
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Manhattan jury found Trump liable of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s. A spokesperson for CNN said the network was still planning to host a Trump town hall on Wednesday. Last week CNN announced it would be hosting the town hall event in New Hampshire, where Republican voters could ask questions of the former president and 2024 hopeful. Following the verdict, a spokesperson for CNN confirmed to Insider there were, as of yet, no changes to the town hall schedule. The term "#BoycottCNN" was trending on Twitter after the verdict, with some users complaining about the network's decision to host Trump for the town hall.

☆ Trump Was Found Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump is found liable for sexual abuseA Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of the magazine writer E. Jean Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages in a civil trial. After three hours of deliberations, the jury unanimously found that the “preponderance of the evidence” — a lower threshold than that in criminal cases — supported Carroll’s accusation that Trump attacked her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid 1990s. It also held the former president liable for defaming Carroll, when he called her case “a Hoax and a lie.” But the jury did not find that Carroll had proved that Trump had raped her, as she has long claimed. On his Truth Social website, Trump said: “I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. This verdict is a disgrace — a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!” He vowed to appeal.

☆ Events leading up to Donald Trump sexual abuse verdict
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

2021-September 2022 - Carroll's lawsuit is largely on hold while Trump appeals Kaplan's decision. Oct. 12, 2022 - Trump repeats his denials of Carroll's claims. Oct. 19, 2022 - Trump is deposed in Carroll's first lawsuit. March 28, 2023 - Kaplan rejects Trump's request to throw out the defamation claim in Carroll's second lawsuit. April 25, 2023 - Trial gets under way.

☆ E. Jean Carroll: Jury finds Donald Trump sexually abused columnist in civil case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A Manhattan federal jury found that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a luxury department store dressing room in the spring of 1996 and is liable for defamation. The jury found him liable for battery in Carroll’s civil trial against him based on that sexual assault claim. Trump has denied all wrongdoing. Trump did not attend the trial. Like any defendant in a civil case, he was not required to appear in court for trial or any proceedings and has a right not to testify in his own defense.

Lawyers for Carroll and the former U.S. president delivered closing arguments on Monday in Manhattan federal court after seven days of a civil trial. Carroll, 79, claims Trump, 76, raped her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1995 or 1996, and then defamed her by denying it happened. Trump opted not to present a defense at trial, gambling that jurors will find Carroll failed to make a persuasive case. Jurors heard from two other women who said Trump sexually assaulted them in separate incidents decades ago. Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told jurors during closing arguments that the haziness of Carroll’s account made it impossible for Trump to defend himself.

☆ Opinion: E. Jean Carroll lawsuit against Trump resurrected my trauma from testifying about a rape
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Opinion Elizabeth Grey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

I became hyper-critical of myself, as if the defense attorney had set up shop in my own mind. Horrible moments of our lives and how defense attorneys frame them can become public fodder. The goal of a defense attorney seems to be to break the survivor giving testimony. I see a screenshot of text of an exchange between Carroll and Joseph Tacopina, defense attorney for Trump. The National Sexual Assault Hotline is 1-800-656-4673 and provided by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) 24/7.

☆ Why battery, not rape? E. Jean Carroll's own testimony against Donald Trump helps explain Manhattan verdict
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A federal jury in Manhattan found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll. That jury on Tuesday awarded her $5 million in damages, after finding Trump civilly liable for sexual battery, but not for rape. he asked Carroll. "We were basically the same height," Carroll told Tacopina during cross examination. "So you are saying," Tacopina asked, "that you got your knee up to his — it would be waist, as high as his waist?"

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