陪审团发现前总统唐纳德·特朗普在E. Jean Carroll案件中对殴打和诽谤负有责任。
卡罗尔，谁提起诉讼11月，据称特朗普在2022年诽谤了她真实社会邮报称她的指控是“骗局和谎言”，并说“这个女人不是我喜欢的类型!”当他否认她声称特朗普在20世纪90年代在波道夫古德曼更衣室强奸了她。
这位前Elle杂志专栏作家根据最近通过的纽约法律增加了一项殴打罪，该法律允许性虐待的成年幸存者起诉他们所谓的攻击者，而不管诉讼时效。特朗普否认了所有关于他强奸卡罗尔或诽谤她的指控。
陪审团在诉讼中判给卡罗尔总计500万美元。陪审团成员认定特朗普没有强奸卡罗尔，而是对她进行了性虐待，并判给她200万美元的补偿性赔偿金和2万美元的惩罚性殴打赔偿金。
陪审团裁定100万美元的损害赔偿金，170万美元的名誉修复费，以及28万美元的惩罚性损害赔偿金。
陪审团经过不到三个小时的审议后做出了裁决。
特朗普称这一判决是“耻辱”，这位前总统的发言人表示他将上诉。
“我完全不知道这个女人是世卫组织，”他在他的真实社交平台上发帖说。"这一判决是一个耻辱——有史以来最大的政治迫害的延续!"
E.2023年5月9日，在纽约对前总统唐纳德·特朗普的民事强奸指控案做出判决后，让·卡罗尔退出曼哈顿联邦法院。
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特朗普发言人在一份声明中说:“毫无疑问，这整个虚假案件是针对特朗普总统的政治努力，因为他现在是再次当选美国总统的压倒性领先者。”“这个案子会上诉，我们最终会赢。”
特朗普被二十多名女性指控性行为不端，并否认了所有这些指控。卡罗尔的殴打指控是第一个在陪审团面前。
卡罗尔在判决后的一份声明中说:“我对唐纳德·特朗普提起诉讼，以还我一个清白，找回我的生活。”“今天，世界终于知道了真相。这场胜利不仅属于我，也属于每一个因为不被相信而受苦的女性。”
卡罗尔的律师罗伯塔·卡普兰在离开法院的路上告诉记者，“我们非常高兴。”
宣读判决时，卡罗尔坐在她的两位律师卡普兰和肖恩·克劳利之间。克劳利一度搂住卡罗尔，卡罗尔与卡普兰手拉着手。
有人看到辩护律师乔·塔科皮纳与协理律师查德·西格尔和佩里·勃兰特进行了交谈。
在审议开始前，特朗普在社交媒体上发布了一条消息，“等待陪审团对一项虚假指控的决定，尽管我是当前的政治候选人，并在两党中领先于所有其他人，但我不被允许发言或为自己辩护，即使顽固的记者就此案向我尖叫。与此同时，对方有一本书诬告我强奸，&正在和媒体合作。因此，在审判结束之前，我不会发表任何言论，但无论结果如何，我都会对作为候选人的违宪沉默提起上诉。"
在审判的早期，法官就特朗普在社交媒体上发布的关于卡罗尔和她的指控的帖子警告了辩方。法官没有提到最近的这个帖子，但之前表示，如果特朗普想谈论这个案件，他应该宣誓作证，这是特朗普拒绝做。
在民事案件中，当被告决定不作证时，陪审员可以做出否定的推断。
“他只是决定不在这里。他从未直视过你的眼睛，也否认强奸过卡罗尔女士。卡罗尔的律师迈克尔·费拉拉在审判中告诉陪审员。
卡罗尔在审判中作证她在Bergdorf Goodman入口附近遇到了Trump，他让她帮他买一些内衣作为礼物。她说，当他把她带进一个更衣室，关上门，把她推到墙上，并对她进行了性侵犯时，两人有说有笑。
她告诉陪审团，她第一次见到特朗普是在1987年，但她很难确定她声称特朗普袭击她的日期，她估计是在1996年左右。
"为什么在一个人的生活中没有像这样重大事件的日期?"辩护律师乔·塔科皮纳反驳。“这不是巧合。没有日期，没有月份，没有年份，你无法提出不在场证明。”
卡罗尔的律师抓住了特朗普去年的证词，当时他看到了卡罗尔、她当时的丈夫约翰·约翰逊、特朗普和他当时的妻子伊凡娜·特朗普的一张20世纪80年代的照片，他瞬间认错了卡罗尔他的第二任妻子玛拉·梅普尔斯。
“那是马拉，对。那是我的妻子，”根据证词，特朗普在谈到卡罗尔时说。
卡罗尔的律师说，“事实是，印第安纳州的前啦啦队长e·简·卡罗尔正是唐纳德·特朗普喜欢的类型。”在法庭上辩论。
卡罗尔的律师将特朗普的错误身份与他在臭名昭著的2005年“进入好莱坞”磁带上的言论并列，他在磁带上被听到谈论女人“我开始亲吻他们...我甚至不等待“当你是一个明星，你可以“抓住他们的p -”
“唐纳德·特朗普在这里做什么?”卡罗尔的律师说。“他在用自己的话告诉你他是如何对待女人的。这是他的惯用手法。”
陪审团还听取了另外两名声称遭到特朗普性侵的女性的陈述，卡罗尔的律师表示，这显示了特朗普的行为模式。前《人物》杂志作家娜塔莎·斯托伊诺夫作证说，2005年底，她在特朗普的Mar-a-Lago庄园，当时特朗普要求带她去看庄园的一个房间，然后关上她身后的门，把她推到墙上，并开始亲吻她。她告诉陪审团，她试图推开他，当一名男管家走进房间时，所谓的相遇就结束了。
杰西卡·利兹作证说，在1979年飞往纽约的头等舱，她坐在特朗普旁边，“突然特朗普决定吻我并抚摸我。”她说，当特朗普开始把手放在她的裙子上时，她挣脱了，然后“冲回”经济舱。
特朗普，谁选择不作证在他自己的辩护中，他之前否认了这两个女人以及卡罗尔的指控。
辩方没有传唤任何证人，但特朗普的律师乔·塔科皮纳(Joe Tacopina)告诉陪审团，卡罗尔的说法是“令人难以置信的虚构作品”，如果被指控的袭击者是唐纳德·特朗普以外的任何人，“我们不在这里。不在这个故事上。”
“他们想要的是让你恨他恨到无视事实，”律师说。
“没有客观证据来证实她的说法，包括警方的报告，”塔科皮纳告诉陪审团。“她从来没有去报警，因为没有发生过。”
塔科皮纳说，卡罗尔“错误地指控他强奸了她”，这就是特朗普公开攻击她的原因。
Tacopina表示，特朗普没有理由出现，因为卡罗尔的故事“完全是编造的”，缺乏可信度，因为她无法确定所谓的强奸发生的时间。
“如果唐纳德·特朗普作证，我会问他什么?”塔科皮纳说。" 27或28年前某个未知的日子，你在哪里?"
卡罗尔的诉讼是她针对特朗普的第二起与强奸指控有关的诉讼。
她此前起诉特朗普2019年，时任总统否认了她的强奸指控告诉山丘卡罗尔“完全在撒谎”，他说，“我要带着极大的敬意说:第一，她不是我喜欢的类型。第二，它从未发生过。从来没发生过，好吗?”那起诽谤诉讼陷入了僵局程序上的来回关于特朗普作为总统发表这些言论时是否是以联邦政府雇员的官方身份行事的问题。
如果特朗普被确定为政府雇员，美国政府将替代作为该诉讼的被告-这意味着该案件将会不了了之，因为政府不能因诽谤而被起诉。
本月的审判发生在特朗普第三次寻求入主白宫之际，同时面临着众多法律挑战与1月6日的国会大厦袭击有关，他在离开白宫后对机密材料的处理，以及可能试图干涉格鲁吉亚2020年的投票。
Trump liable for battery, defamation in E. Jean Carroll suit
A jury has found former PresidentDonald Trumpliable for battery and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll case.
Carroll, whobrought the lawsuitin November, alleged that Trump defamed her in his 2022Truth Social postby calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!" when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.
The former Elle magazine columnist added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the statute of limitations. Trump has denied all allegations that he raped Carroll or defamed her.
The jury awarded Carroll a total of $5 million in the lawsuit. Jury members found that Trump did not rape Carroll but sexually abused her, and awarded damages of $2 million in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages for battery.
The jury awarded $1 million in damages, $1.7 million for reputation repair, and $280,000 in punitive damages, for defamation.
The jury reached its verdict after just under three hours of deliberations.
Trump called the verdict "a disgrace," and a spokesperson for the former president said he would appeal.
"I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS," he posted to his Truth Social platform. "THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE - A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!"
"Make no mistake, this entire bogus case is a political endeavor targeting President Trump because he is now an overwhelming front-runner to once again be elected President of the United States," a Trump spokesperson said in a statement. "This case will be appealed, and we will ultimately win."
Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by about two dozen women, and has denied all such claims. Carroll's battery allegation was the first to make itbefore a jury.
"I filed this lawsuit against Donald Trump to clear my name and to get my life back," Carroll said in a statement following the verdict. "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."
Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, told reporters on her way out of the courthouse, "We are very happy."
Carroll was seated between two of her attorneys, Kaplan and Shawn Crowley, as the verdict was read. At one point Crowley put her arm around Carroll, who held hands with Kaplan.
Defense attorney Joe Tacopina was seen conferring with co-counsel Chad Siegel and Perry Brandt.
Before deliberations started, Trump posted on social media, "Waiting for a jury decision on a False Accusation where I, despite being a current political candidate and leading all others in both parties, am not allowed to speak or defend myself, even as hard nosed reporters scream questions about this case at me. In the meantime, the other side has a book falsely accusing me of Rape,& is working with the press. I will therefore not speak until after the trial, but will appeal the Unconstitutional silencing of me, as a candidate, no matter the outcome."
Early in the trial the judge had admonished the defense over Trump's social media posts about Carroll and her allegations. The judge did not address this most recent post, but previously indicated that if Trump wanted to speak about the case he should testify under oath, which Trumpdeclined to do.
In a civil case jurors are allowed to draw a negative inference when a defendant decides not to testify.
"He just decided not to be here. He never looked you in the eye and denied raping Ms. Carroll. Never did that," Carroll's attorney, Michael Ferrara, told jurors during the trial.
Carrolltestified during the trialthat she ran into Trump near the Bergdorf Goodman entrance and that he asked her to help him buy some lingerie as a gift. The two were laughing and joking, she said, when he led her into a dressing room, shut the door, shoved her up against a wall, and sexually assaulted her.
She told the jury that she first met Trump in 1987 -- but she struggled to pinpoint the date that she alleges he attacked her, which she estimated was sometime around 1996.
"And why is there no date to an event as significant as this in someone's life?" defense attorney Joe Tacopinacountered. "It's not a coincidence. With no date, no month, no year, you can't present an alibi."
Carroll's attorneys seized on Trump's deposition last year when he was shown a 1980s-era photograph of Carroll, her then-husband John Johnson, Trump, and his then-wife Ivana Trump -- and he momentarilymistook Carrollfor his second wife, Marla Maples.
"That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife," Trump said regarding Carroll, according to the deposition.
"The truth is that E. Jean Carroll, a former cheerleader and Ms. Indiana, was exactly Donald Trump's type," Carroll's attorneysargued in court.
Carroll's attorneys juxtaposed Trump's mistaken identification with his remarks on the infamous 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape, on which he is heardsaying about womenthat "I just start kissing them ... I don't even wait" and that when you're a star you can "grab them by the p----."
"What is Donald Trump doing here?" Carroll's attorney said. "He's telling you in his own words how he treats women. It's his modus operandi."
The jury also heard from two other women who claimed they had been sexually assaulted by Trump, in what Carroll's attorneys said showed a pattern of behavior on Trump's part. Former People magazine writerNatasha Stoynofftestified that she was at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in late 2005 when Trump asked to show her a room in the estate, then closed the door behind her, pushed her against the wall, and started kissing her. She told the jury that she tried to shove him away, and that the alleged encounter ended when a butler entered the room.
Jessica Leedstestified that she was seated next to Trump in the first-class section of a flight to New York in 1979, "when all of a sudden Trump decided to kiss me and grope me." She said that she freed herself when Trump started putting his hand up her skirt, and went "storming back" to the coach section.
Trump, whochose not to testifyin his own defense, has previously denied the allegations from both women, as well as from Carroll.
The defense called no witnesses but Trump's attorney, Joe Tacopina, told the jury that Carroll's claim was "an unbelievable work of fiction" and that if the alleged attacker was anyone but Donald Trump, "we're not here. Not on this story."
"What they want is for you to hate him enough to ignore the facts," the attorney said.
"There is no objective evidence to corroborate her claim, including a police report," Tacopina told the jury. "She never went to the police, because it didn't happen."
Tacopina said Carroll "falsely alleged that he raped her," and that's why Trump publicly attacked her.
Tacopina said there was no reason for Trump to appear because Carroll's story was "completely made up" and lacked credibility because she could not pinpoint when the alleged rape occurred.
"And if Donald Trump testified, what could I have asked him?" Tacopina said. "Where were you on some unknown date 27 or 28 years ago?"
Carroll's lawsuit was her second against Trump related to her rape allegation.
Shepreviously sued Trumpin 2019 after the then-president denied her rape claim bytelling The Hillthat Carroll was "totally lying," saying, "I'll say it with great respect: No. 1, she's not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, OK?" That defamation suit has been caught in aprocedural back-and-forthover the question of whether Trump, as president, was acting in his official capacity as an employee of the federal government when he made those remarks.
If Trump is determined to have been acting as a government employee, the U.S. government would substitute as the defendant in that suit -- which means that case would go away, since the government cannot be sued for defamation.
This month's trial took place as Trump seeks the White House for a third time, while facingnumerous legal challengesrelated to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, his handling of classified material after leaving the White House, and possible attempts to interfere in Georgia's 2020 vote.
