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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 lyin ....
Historic moment of accountability for the ex-president and current republican front-runner. donald trump with his long record of lying and spreading misand dits information has been credibly accused by sexual misconduct by 26 women. today he was found by a jury to be not only liable for his statements but also for his behavior. as she exited the court room carroll and her attorney roberta kaplan did not stop to speak with reporters with kaplan saying only this, quote, we re only happy. joining us with breaking news coverage of this decision from outside the courthouse lisa rubin is back with us, and also andrew wiseman, former senior member of robert mueller s special counsel investigation. mary mccord is back, formal top official in the justice department s national security division. we see you were inside the courtroom for so much of what went on during this trial. first your reaction to the ....
Yet. when this trial went to case for the october 2022 statement that case was still on appeal. it has come back to the same judge, juge lewis kaplan. and now if e. jean carroll wishes, she can proceed to take that case to trial on the question of was donald trump acting within the scope of his employment as president when he denied e. jean carroll s sexual assault claim? or can he be liable for those statements as well? and one could find certainly that the quantum of damages for defamation in that case would be considerably more than the additional damage done to her in october 2022 after you know, three plus years after he first denied that he ever met e. jean carroll, that had sexual contact with e. jean carroll, that she was a sick person and a whack job and all of the rest, that case is still outstanding and e. jean carroll is free to pursue it. i m interesting to see whether ....
And you never know, again, who s typing them or whether they have any relationship to the truth, so i didn t reair it. but he does indicate some interest to an appeal. do you agree with andrew wiseman s assessment of the strength and solidity of the award i think it totaled $4.89 million. with the caveat i was not in the courtroom like lisa and i have not read the transcript of every day, i haven t heard any reporting of any sort of rulings on evidentiary issues or anything like that made me alarmed, and the judge was careful even after mr. trump s attorney joe tacopina said he s not going gobe testifying, your honor, the judge said you know what i heard he was putting out some posts from scotland or ireland saying he was going to confront the witness, so i m ....
you re saying marlap in this photo? that s marla. it s my wife. which one are you pointing to? that person you just pointed to is e. jean carroll. and the person on the right is your wife ivana. this is the picture. it s very blurry. the picture is not, for the record, blurry. it s a little old but it isn t blurry. i read the transcript and watched the tape. it s one of the remarkable things i ve ever seen. you re saying marla is in the photo, which woman are you pointing to? the lawyer says, no, that s carroll. trump, i see. kaplan says the person you just pointed to was e. jean carroll and the same, that s your wife. there s the photo. this might be a turning point. ....