Jury Finds That Donald Trump Sexually Abused E. Jean Carroll, Awards Her $5 Million in Damages
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After just three hours of deliberations on Tuesday, a jury found former president Donald Trump civilly liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll stemming from an incident in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. The jury awarded her roughly $5 million in compensatory and punitive…