BREAKING: Jury reaches verdict in Trump civil rape case
wasn’t in danger of going to jail. She was seeking unspecified monetary damages and a retraction of Trump statements.
The nine-person jury began deliberating just hours ago about the civil claims of battery and defamation afterU.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told jurors that the first question on the verdict form was to decide whether they think there is more than a 50% chance that Trump raped Carroll inside a store dressing room. If they answered yes, they would then decide whether compensatory and punitive damages should be awarded.
If they answered no on the rape question, they could then decide if Trump subjected her to lesser forms of assault involving sexual contact without her consent or forcible touching to degrade her or gratify his sexual desire. If they answered yes on either of those questions, they will decide if damages are appropriate., saying she had a chance encounter with Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman store across the street from Trump Tower.
The full video of a deposition given by former president Donald Trump as part of his civil rape trial has been released. In the video, Trump calls his accuser, writer E. Jean Carroll a "nut job" and "mentally sick." At one point, he also mistakes Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in a photo.
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