It was recently noted that Mitt Romney said former President Donald Trump isn’t suited to be President following the E Jean Carroll verdict. It is to be noted that the last time he said this, he won the White House.
Mitt Romney says Trump isn’t suited to be President following the E Jean Carroll verdict
Last time he said this we bulldozed our way to the nomination and won the White House pic.twitter.com/jkYQbRqKb8
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Verdict on E. Jean Carrol case
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will appeal a Manhattan federal jury verdict that found he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a luxury department store dressing room in the spring of 1996.
Carroll was awarded about $5 million for sexual battery and defamation, in a significant defeat for the former president.
“Somehow we’re going to have to fight this stuff,” Trump said. “We cannot let our country go into this abyss. This is disgraceful.”
It has been noted that E. Jean Carroll has prevailed in her civil trial against Donald Trump with a federal jury finding the former president liable for battery and defamation and awarding the writer $5 million.
The panel in a Manhattan federal courtroom considered Carroll’s allegations that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman lingerie department dressing room in the spring of 1996, and then defamed her in a social media post last October. Trump has denied the allegations and called the verdict “a total disgrace” Tuesday.
Carroll filed the lawsuit last November under the “New York State Adult Survivors Act,” a state bill which opened a look-back window for sexual assault allegations like Carroll’s with long-expired statutes of limitation.
This is not a criminal trial. In a civil suit like Carroll’s, the jury had to determine whether Carroll’s legal team proved that Trump committed battery against Carroll by a preponderance of the evidence.
To prove her defamation claim, the jury had to find that Carroll’s legal team proved by the preponderance of the evidence that Trump knew it was false when he published the statement about Carroll last year and knowingly exposed her to public ridicule. They also had to determine that she proved by clear and convincing evidence that the statement was false, and that Trump made the statement with actual malice.
