for you, a jury in new york finding donald trump, the republican presidential front runner, by far liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer, e. jean carroll. the jury also awarding the former magazine columnist nearly $5 million in damages to be paid by mr. trump. carol walked out of the manhattan courthouse just moments ago with her lawyer who said that they re quote, very happy with the jury s decision. carol s lawsuit stemmed from an encounter between her and trump in a new york department store dressing room in 1996. she claims donald trump sexually assaulted her. donald trump reacted on his social media platform, writing in all caps, quote, i have absolutely no idea who this woman is, this verdict is a disgrace, continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all-time, unquote. this all comes as trump is facing another very serious case in new york city, just last month the former president pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges related to hush money payments to ad
her story that she says trump raped her and in the department store in the mid 1990s. they also found that trump defamed her when he made these statements on october 12th, saying that he did not know who carroll was, he said her story was a hoax, and that she was not his type. over this, you know, there were seven days of testimony, the jury heard from 11 witnesses that prompted did see the video deposition of him. that s something carroll s team had argued would cut against him. it seemed to the jury did agree with that. they also awarded carroll $5 million in damages. now, as this verdict was read just after 3 pm eastern time today, as read by the judges, carroll was sitting there, in between two of her attorneys. holding the hands of one of her attorneys, and when the question came of, you know, did they prove that e. jean carroll proved that trump had sexually abused her, the answer was yes, you could see that she looked relieved. she was leaning forward at
that was a disastrous answer for donald. trump really, on two levels. first of all, as you say, when you say that it s fortunate that stars can do this, later was, asked you consider yourself a star? he said, yes. that really goes to the heart of e. jean carroll s allegation. second, but when trump said, well, it s true, that was his answer. that is not the point here. the point is, does donald trump believe that that s the way of the world? and he clearly does believe that s the way of the world, he said at the deposition and hence the argument is, that s how he operates and carroll s lawyers effectively argued to the jury. that s what he did to e. jean carroll. the answer, there i think it did a lot of damage to donald trump and was a contributing factor to today s verdict. so, donald trump ordered this court to pay $5 million to e. jean carroll, 3 million for defamation, 2 million for sexual abuse. i assume you think he will appeal this verdict. wouldn t appeal have a chance
the democratic financier, you know, who miss carol was not candid about when she testified initially under oath in her deposition, you know, that should come into this case. the access hollywood tape should not have come into this case, other federal rule balances out fundamentally and president that was certainly one of them, so there are plenty of issues to appeal, and look, that s what happens, right? you know, we are in one sense gratified. i know some people in this camp are very happy that, you know, the rape claim was rejected, but i m not, and i m happy about that, certainly, but i m not happy that he was found liable for anything whatsoever, because on the seventh [inaudible] you know, he s strong, he s ready to move forward. he wants to fight this on appeal. again, he was successful in one appeal before. the second circuit with judge kaplan on carroll versus trump and he will think cues going to be successful in the second one. but he s planning to have
jury selection and we couldn t challenge people who wouldn t even know, you know, what their backgrounds were. so, we look we re looking at [inaudible] we will. what did you say to e. jean? listen, what i said to her is between miss carroll and i. but, you know, i don t make it personal with people and we had a pretty good experience, as far as the parties in this case, considering, you know, what we went through. this was not an easy case. did you think about how [inaudible] yeah, it was fast. you know, and again, we talked behind a jury room door. i don t know what they were thinking nor what it sort of indicates is what, again, people have been saying is that in new york, you just cannot get a fair trial. you know, people have said you lost a case when they announce the names of the litigants. but again, they found him not liable for the rape. [inaudible]