Trump convicted of sexually abusing Carroll, ordered to pay $5 million

Ông Trump bị kết luận xâm hại cựu nhà báo, phải bồi thường 5 triệu USD - Ảnh 1. — Ms. E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan Federal Court in New York on May 9.

According to The New York Times , a federal jury of six men and three women in Manhattan found that Ms. Carroll, now 79, could not prove that Mr. Trump raped her nearly 30 years ago in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, as she has long claimed. However, the jury concluded that Mr. Trump sexually abused Ms. Carroll, a lesser crime.

In the verdict announced just before 3 p.m. on May 9 (local time), the jury also concluded that Mr. Trump defamed Ms. Carroll in October 2022 when he posted a statement on the social media platform Truth Social calling the lawsuit she initiated "a 100% scam" and "a myth, a lie."

"Today, the world finally knows the truth... This victory is not just for me, but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed," Reuters quoted Ms. Carroll, a former magazine writer, as saying in a statement on May 9.

Trump, who has launched a presidential re-election campaign to return to the White House after 2024, will appeal, according to his lawyer Joseph Tacopina. The former US president has been absent from the trial, which began on April 25. In a post on Truth Social on May 9, Trump called the verdict a "disgrace" and declared: "I have absolutely no idea who this woman is."

Because this is a civil lawsuit, Mr. Trump does not face criminal consequences and therefore does not risk jail time.

The jury, which was required to reach a unanimous verdict, deliberated for less than three hours. In addition to the above conclusions, the nine-member jury also agreed to order Mr. Trump to pay Ms. Carroll $5 million, but he will not have to pay it while the parties are still appealing.

In April, Mr. Trump provided election regulators with only a rough estimate of his assets, required by financial disclosure laws, listing more than a dozen assets worth “more than $50 million” each.

For now, in America’s polarized political climate, the civil verdict is unlikely to have any impact on Mr. Trump’s core base of supporters, who see his legal troubles as part of a coordinated effort by his opponents to oust the former president.

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