hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york, an extraordinary and historic moment unfolding today in a manhattan courthouse where a jury of six men and three women ruled that the disgraced, impeached, indicted ex-president and now also liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll inside a luxury manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. trump was also found liable for defamatory statements he made toward carroll including calling her claims a hoax and a con job. in total this jury awarded the former journalist nearly $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. the jury did not find trump liable for raping e. jean carroll. it s the only claim on the ten count verdict that went in his favor. while the jury s unanimous verdict was decided in less than three hours it carries no criminal implications for donald trump, it is nonetheless a historic moment of accountability for the ex-president and current republican front-runner. donald trump with his long record of lying and
expanded its blast radius over the weekend to a premium outlet mall in texas where that state s republican leaders are today striking a pose of complete impotence in the face of both deadly forces, the 199th shooting took place in allen, texas, a suburb of dallas, texas, eight people were murdered including a 5-year-old boy. six others were injured. unimaginable. unthinkable carnage unfolded as a man armed with an ar-15 style rifle opened fire. here s how one eyewitness who rushed to the mall when his son said shots had been fired outside the store where he works described the scene. the first girl i walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes so i felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side and she had no face. and so when i rolled the mother over, he came out and asked him are you okay, he said, my mom is hurt. my mom is hurt so whether than traumatize him anymore, i sat him down, he was covered from head to toe like somebody poured blood on him. th
arguments robby cablen, the lawyer for e. jean carroll said, if you were going to find for donald trump here, you would essentially need to show you would need to conclude that donald trump in her words the nonstop liar, is the only one in this entire courtroom who is telling the truth. so his reputation for telling known lies was very much on trial here. maybe predominantly on trial here. and defamation lie is tricky as a tool for solving at the telling of known lies because it has to be brought by a defamation suit has to be brought by someone who is specifically targeted by that. that s why we see in this instance e. jean carroll as the plaintiff here. right, she isn t just suing to say donald trump told a series of lies. she had to prove up a case that he told a known lie that was specific to me and that harmed my reputation in a provable way.
that no person, not even an ex-president, is above the law. she used trump s own words against him, saying that through his taped deposition, quote, trump is a witness against himself. she also went over the clip we played at the top of the hour, saying that by confusing carroll with his ex-wife marla maples trump proved his own defense wrong, carroll actually was his type. in her closing argument kaplan also argues this, quote, in order for you to find him, you need to conclude that donald trump, the nonstop liar, is the only person in this courtroom who s been telling the truth. meanwhile, trump s lawyer, joe tacopina, attacked e. jean carroll s credibility, saying she used the accusation to sell books and she colluded with her friends to go after trump politically. trump denies all of carroll s accusations. you have to remember that this is a civil case, a civil trial, which means the twice impeached, disgraced ex-president will not be arrested even if the jury