There was no big reaction. in part, as the judge said, he wanted to maintain decorum. he did not want any outbursts. so he set the table for that at the outset. and what was the response on the donald trump side, joe tacopina and his attorney? so, joe tacopina, it was interesting in court, he went over and shook e. jean carroll s hand, her attorneys hand. given that this was such a hard-fought battle this was that s a classy move. a very classy move, and he said afterwards, none of this is personal. and he essentially respected them and their lawyering. so, they ve come out and said they are going to appeal. tacopina spoke to reporters afterwards. here s what he said. obviously, you know, he s affirming his belief, as many people, art that he cannot get a fair trial in new york city. , beast on the jury pool. and i think one could argue that s probably an accurate assessment, based on what happened today.
Unevenly enforced in civil court. in the criminal sector, survivors often encounter poorly trained and overburdened police investigators who don t do the kind of investigations they need. and most of all, the one issue that i really think is worth focusing on is that in e. jean carroll s trial, other women were allowed to testify about similar crimes. that is a rarity that happened only because we were in federal court. the vast majority of states do not permit that kind of testimony in state court. the thinking behind that is, if we allow the jury prejudicial. the jury would be run away by their anger and resentment toward the defendant. donald trump s verdict today is yet the latest example that that prejudice concern is really look what the jury did, they parse through the counts. they want to fray to answer know when they felt that the evidence did not support it. and so, it s really time to rethink the availability of this kind of evidence in state court. that s real
Stoynoff, one of the witnesses in the e. jean carroll case. tonight, on all in the verdict is in. if he can grab women by the [bleep] we ll, if you look over the last million years, i guess that has been largely true, not always, but largely true, unfortunately, unfortunately. a jury finds donald trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation tonight vindication for e. jean carroll it hurt and it was against my will the fallout for the republican front runner obviously very happy that donald trump was and the reaction from the republican party. e. jean carroll case? plus, federal charges for freshman congressman and syria lie or george santos. i am not a fraud, i m not a cartoon character.
And you know, again, it s something that, you know, we re very confident on the appellate issues here. so, tacopina had spoken to us after he got off the phone with donald trump. so, there he is telegraphing what trump and he had just discuss. so, he was talk about these appellate issues. there are a couple things they re looking to appeal. one of it is what they could not get into trial, and that is they want to put in testimony about reid hoffman, a big donor to democrats. he funded in part some of e. jean carroll s legal defense. one of the big defenses in this case was that she was politically motivated, so, they really want to hit that. point the other thing, they did not want the access hollywood tape to come in. and that s something that carroll s lawyers really capitalize on. they spent a lot of time in their closing arguments on that. and that s part of it is they want to show that s a pattern. they said that should not come in, and some of the two other women who testified,
I am not some mythical creature that was invented. the latest on that wind all in starts right now good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes the leading republican candidate for president was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation today in federal court loom in manhattan it took the jury just under three hours to come to the unanimous decision that donald trump did abuse e. jean carroll, the writer, who pinned forcing himself on her, in a manhattan department store in the 90s the. jury also found that trump s statement from october in which he called e. jean carroll a liar was false, that he made that statement with actual malice and the statement caused injury to carroll. the jury then ordered trump to pay $5 million in damages. carroll said in a statement, i file this lawsuit against donald trump to clear my, name to get my life back.