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The next US president will have to pay 5 million dollars to writer E Jean Carroll, whom he allegedly sexually abused in 1996.
Donald Trump lost his appeal and a federal court ruled that he is guilty. The newly elected US president allegedly sexually assaulted writer E Jean Carroll.
Now, will have to pay 5 million dollars (almost 5 million euros). The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Trump’s arguments for a new trial, reports .
He then decided that the evidence, including the testimony from other women who claim to be victims — just like the infamous man who captured him boasting that it was normal for him to “grab women by the s***” — were duly admitted.
In the recording, Trump brags to then-host of the Access Hollywood television show, Billy Bush, that he used to grope, forcibly kissing and trying to have non-consensual sex with several women.
In the list of witnesses, two of Carroll’s friends stand out, to whom the writer would have told the details of the attack at the time of the events; and two other women who also say they are victims of sexual assault by Trump.
“Mr. Trump on the tape, along with Mrs. Trump’s testimony. Leeds and Mrs. Stoynoff, establish a repeated and idiosyncratic pattern of conductconsistent with what Ms. Carroll alleged,” the appeals court opinion states.
The May 2023 verdict found Trump responsible for having sexually assaulted Carroll in a store changing room of New York, around 1996, 20 years before he won his first presidency, although the jury did not find the case a rape.
Later, Trump even wrote on social media that Carroll’s accusations were a “scam”“. More than half of the amount he will pay is due to the crime of defamation by these publications.
Trump still denied all the allegations, claiming that never met Carroll and that she was “not my type.”
According to The Guardian, the case is expected to continue even after Trump takes office for his second presidency on January 20, 2025, since the US Supreme Court unanimously in 1997 that the Sitting presidents do not have immunity from civil litigation about actions prior to their official duties.
