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Former U.S. President Donald Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her by branding her a liar, a jury decided on Tuesday.
Carroll, 79, testified during the civil trial that Trump, 76, raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan in either 1995 or 1996, then harmed her reputation by writing in an October 2022 post on his Truth Social platform that her claims were a "complete con job," "a hoax" and "a lie."
Trump, in Truth Social posts on Tuesday, wrote that he would appeal the case while describing the verdict as "a disgrace" and "a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time."
Because it was a civil case, Trump faces no criminal consequences and, as such, there was never a threat of prison.
Carroll came forward publicly in 2019 when an excerpt of her forthcoming book was released in a magazine.
Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll's claims, alleging that the American writer and former magazine columnist made it up to sell the book.
A Republican who held the White House from early 2017 to early 2021, Trump is running again for the U.S. presidency.
Trump's 2024 campaign team said in a statement that the case was a "political endeavor" intended to derail Trump's bid to regain the White House, and that he would appeal.
(With input from agencies)
(Cover: In this courtroom sketch, Judge Lewis Kaplan reads the jury instructions prior to their deliberations in a Manhattan federal court, New York, May 9, 2023. /CFP)
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