Donald Trump Found Liable for Battery and Defamation in E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit

etonline.com:

President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in a civil trial stemming from allegations he raped the writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.She was awarded $5 million total in damages.The case stems from allegations by the writer E.

Jean Carroll that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.The jury, made up of six men and three women, got the case earlier Tuesday and deliberated for less than three hours.During the eight-day trial, attorneys for Carroll pressed a case to the jury laying out how her allegations fit a pattern, or «modus operandi,» for Trump.

In addition to witnesses who said Carroll confided in them after the incident, the jury heard from two other women who described Trump suddenly turning casual confrontations into sexual misconduct.

They also watched the  video clip in which Trump could be heard crudely describing grabbing women by their genitals.Attorneys for Trump did not call any witnesses and he did not testify in the trial.