john trump is a sexual abuser. six men and three women found him liable for sexually abusing e. jean carroll at a manhattan department store in the 1990s then defaming her about it on his social media site. the jury took under three hours to reach their verdict and award carroll approximately $5 million in damages. in a moment we ll be joined by jessica leeds who testified during the trial that a young donald trump groped her on a flight in the 70s, his lawyers neither put on a defense or called him a as witness leading the plaintiffs to play damaging portions of his testimony and heard the access hollywood tape where he said you could grab women by the genitals and doubled down on that in the deposition. historically it s true with stars. that they can grab women by the if you look over the last million years that s been largely true, not always but largely true. unfortunately or fortunately. and you consider yourself to be a star? i think you can say that, yeah
finds former president donald j. trump sexually abused writer e. jean carroll. the witness who testified in the case is outfront tonight. plus, breaking news. embattled congressman george santos lied about his resume and he is now facing criminal charges from the doj and we learned he can be arrested in just hours. putin mocked after one single tank was on display for russia s big victory day parade, what happened? a russia insider who predicted this is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, sexual abuse. a new york jury today finding former president donald trump sexually abused writer e. jean carroll inside a department store dressing room in the 1990s. jurors needed to believe that trump subjected carroll to sexual contact by physical force without her consent. the jury did that and they also found trump liable of defaming carroll. it awarded her a massive sum of $5 million in damages. and in the statement carroll writes,