himself in. that position was a complete another train wreck. completely undermined any defense he had. if anything, he publicly implicated himself in all this. once you have that deposition on record, you re in a really tough spot. option a is to call your client as a witness, hope he does better, remember, he can still get cross-examined with that deposition or option b is to let the deposition stand and hope you don t make it any worse by leaving him off the stand. it s a sort of know when once you get that horrific deposition. laura, help us understand as non lawyers out there, help us understand why the jury did not find donald trump liable for rape but did find him liable for sexual assault or sexual abuse. what is the difference? does it suggest they believe some of what e. jean carroll said but not all of it? i don t know, forgive my ignorance. what does it mean? non whatever mistake you for
saying, quote, i have absolutely no idea who this woman is. this rerkt is a disgrace, a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. we re going to start with paula reed and jean casarez. walk us through the verdict. reporter: it s always surprising this jury was able to go through this three-page verdict in just two hours answering these questions and finding the former president trump sexually abused e. jean c carroll and he was liable for battery awarding her millions in damages. he demated her when he called her accusations a hoax and a lie. and in terms of the defamation damages, they awarded her just under $3 million. fou they did not find that he raped her, but sexual abuse is a form of sexual assault, so this is a victory for e. jean carroll who are sued the former president for battery and defamation based on these allegations that he raped her in
judge was taking into consideration here. obviously during the case, e. jean carroll s attorney introduced the access hollywood tape of donald trump in, i think, 2006, talking with billy bush about how, if you re a star, you can get away with sexual assault, essentially, grabbing women by their genitals. in addition, i believe there was at least one, if not to other women who testified and claimed that donald trump hidden similar things to them, right? there is this context that there are more than a dozen women who have made similar allegations about donald trump. who testified exactly, what did they testify about? yeah, so, there were two women who testified. one of them is just the belly, she said she was sitting in first class on an airplane next to donald trump in 1979 or 1980. she said that trump just started groping her then. and the other person who testified, natasha, she was a reporter for people magazine, she said that she was down at mar-a-lago, interviewing trump
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