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Former US President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, a Manhattan federal jury has found and awarded her USD 5 million for battery and defamation, a verdict that may hurt him in his 2024 bid to regain the White House.
As per PTI report, The jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll, holding him liable for battery charges but did not find that Carroll proved he raped her.
Carroll has alleged that Trump had raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan and then defamed her when the former US President posted a statement in October on his Truth Social platform by describing her case as “a complete con job” and “a Hoax and a lie.” The jury verdict against Trump comes just over a month after a grand jury in Manhattan indicted the 76-year-old former president, for his role in paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels.
