Former President Donald Trump issued a two-sentence statement Tuesday in response to the jury’s verdict in the civil lawsuit filed by former columnist E. Jean Carroll.
“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!” Triumph wrote in a post on his TruthSocial account.
Trump’s post came shortly after a jury in Manhattan found the former president responsible for sexually abusing Carroll. The jury concluded that Trump did not rape Carroll as she previously claimed she did in a dressing room in the 1990s, but decided to award Carroll $5 million, the Associated Press reported. It also found that he defamed Carroll when he called his allegations a “scam” in an October 2022 Truth Social post. Carroll was awarded $5 million in total damages for his claims against Trump, with $2 million in compensatory damages for the claim of assault.
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Trump has continued to deny the allegations made by Carroll, but the jury found that Trump’s earlier comments calling Carroll’s allegations a “scam” were defamatory to her.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump responded to the case in another TruthSocial post where saying“Waiting for the jury’s decision on a trumped up charge where, despite being a current political candidate and leading everyone else in both parties, I am not allowed to speak or defend myself, even as tough journalists yell questions at me about this case. In the meantime, the other party has a book falsely accusing me of rape and is working with the press. Therefore, I will not speak until after the trial, but I will appeal the unconstitutional silencing of me, as a candidate, regardless of the outcome . !”
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