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Trump Rape Lawsuit Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation

A jury of six men and three women awarded the writer E. Jean Carroll $5 
million in damages. Donald J. Trump called the verdict a “disgrace.”
May 9, 2023

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E. Jean Carroll, center, leaving court in New York on Tuesday 
afternoon.Credit...Brittainy Newman for The New York Times
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Benjamin WeiserLola Fadulu and Kate Christobek
Donald Trump Sexually Abused and Defamed E. Jean Carroll, Jury Finds
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The former writer left the Manhattan courthouse smiling after a jury found 
that Donald Trump had sexually abused and defamed her. Mr. Trump’s lawyer 
said he intended to appeal.CreditCredit...Brittainy Newman for The New York 
Times

A Manhattan jury on Tuesday found former President Donald J. Trump liable 
for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 
million in damages. More than a dozen women have accused Mr. Trump of 
sexual misconduct over the years, but this is the only allegation to be 
affirmed by a jury.

In the civil case, the federal jury of six men and three women found that 
Ms. Carroll, 79, a former magazine writer, had sufficiently proved that Mr. 
Trump sexually abused her nearly 30 years ago in a dressing room of the 
Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. The jury did not, however, 
find he had raped her, as she had long claimed.

The jury, in returning the verdict shortly before 3 p.m., also found that 
Mr. Trump, who is running to regain the presidency, defamed Ms. Carroll in 
October when he posted a statement on his Truth Social platform calling her 
case “a complete con job” and “a Hoax and a lie.” His lawyer said he 
intended to appeal.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers called no witnesses, and he never appeared at the trial 
to hear Ms. Carroll, who had sued him last year, deliver visceral testimony 
about the attack she said had ended her romantic life forever.
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Donald Trump at a lectern.
Donald Trump, who avoided the trial, continued to say he did not know Ms. 
Carroll. Credit...Sophie Park for The New York Times

On Tuesday, Ms. Carroll nodded along as a court clerk read the verdict 
aloud, her nod growing more pronounced as the clerk said Mr. Trump was 
liable for defamation. She walked out of the courthouse grinning from ear 
to ear, holding hands with her lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan. A woman yelled to 
Ms. Carroll, “You’re so brave and beautiful.” Ms. Carroll replied, “Thank 
you, thank you so much.”

In a later statement, she said: “I filed this lawsuit against Donald Trump 
to clear my name and to get my life back. 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.”

For decades, Mr. Trump had reveled in projecting the image of a man 
irresistible to women, engineering tabloid headlines like “Best Sex I’ve 
Ever Had,” appearing in the introduction of a 1999 Playboy magazine 
centerfold video and bragging in an exchange caught on video about how, as 
a celebrity, he could grab women’s genitals with impunity. Now the jury has 
labeled him not a Lothario but an abuser.

Its unanimous verdict came after just under three hours of deliberation. 
The findings are civil, not criminal, meaning Mr. Trump has not been 
convicted of any crime and faces no prison time.
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E. Jean Carroll leaves court in her sunglasses.
“Today, the world finally knows the truth,” Ms. Carroll said after court. 
“This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered 
because she was not believed.”Credit...Brittainy Newman for The New York 
Times

In a Truth Social post after the verdict, Mr. Trump continued to insist 
that he did not know Ms. 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!”

His lawyer Joseph Tacopina said outside the courthouse that the case would 
be appealed. He also defended Mr. Trump’s absence from the courtroom and 
his decision not to testify in his own defense.

“This was a circus atmosphere, and having him be here would be more of a 
circus,” Mr. Tacopina said.

He noted that Mr. Trump had denied Ms. Carroll’s allegation in a video 
deposition that her lawyers played for the jury. He also said Ms. Carroll’s 
lawyers should never have been allowed to play the “Access Hollywood” 
recording for the jury, in which Mr. Trump was captured boasting in vulgar 
terms about grabbing women by the genitals.

And he complained about the decision by the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, to have 
an anonymous jury hear the case, with their names kept even from the 
lawyers.

“There were things that happened in this case that were beyond the pale,” 
said Mr. Tacopina, who also complained about what he said was “bias 
displayed by the court.”

Mr. Tacopina clashed with Judge Kaplan at times and even filed a motion 
seeking a mistrial based on “pervasive, unfair and prejudicial rulings” 
based in part on what he described as the judge’s improperly sustaining 
objections by Ms. Carroll’s lawyers, who argued that his questions were 
argumentative.

At one point, Judge Kaplan quoted the definition of “an argumentative 
question” from Black’s Law Dictionary, reading it aloud to Mr. Tacopina.
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Joseph Tacopina gesticulates to reporters.
Joseph Tacopina, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, clashed frequently with the judge, and 
said the proceedings were biased against his client. Credit...Brittainy 
Newman for The New York Times

During his instructions to the jury on Tuesday, the judge explained their 
three options for finding Mr. Trump liable for battery, meaning an assault 
on Ms. Carroll: that he had raped her, sexually abused her or forcibly 
touched her. A unanimous vote would affirm that Ms. Carroll had proven that 
it was more likely than not to be true that he had committed an offense, 
the judge explained.

In a criminal case, when jurors are asked to assess guilt, they must meet 
the much higher standard of beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Read the Completed Jury Verdict Form in the Trump-Carroll Case

A jury, which held former President Donald J. Trump liable on Tuesday for 
the sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 
million, completed a verdict form that spelled out possible findings.
Read Document 3 pages

It was not clear why jurors chose the lesser offense of abuse over rape. 
Sexual abuse is defined in New York as subjecting a person to sexual 
contact without consent. Rape is defined under state law as sexual 
intercourse without consent that involves any penetration of the penis in 
the vaginal opening.

During the trial, Ms. Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine 
who was well known in Manhattan media circles, had testified that the 
attack followed a chance encounter one evening at Bergdorf’s, a fashionable 
department store on Fifth Avenue. Mr. Trump, she said, asked her to help 
him buy a present for a female friend.

They ended up in the lingerie section, where he motioned her over to a 
dressing room, shut the door and began assaulting her. He shoved her 
against the wall and, using his weight to pin her, he pulled down her 
tights and forced his fingers into her vagina and then, she said, his 
penis.

She pushed back, stamped with her heels and used her knee to push Mr. Trump 
off her, and she fled the store. Other than telling two friends, she kept 
the encounter a secret for more than 20 years until she disclosed it in a 
2019 book excerpt in New York magazine.

Ms. Carroll and 10 other witnesses called on her behalf testified during 
the two-week trial. They included the friends — Lisa Birnbach, a journalist 
and author, and Carol Martin, a former TV anchor — in whom she had confided 
almost immediately after the attack, telling them what Mr. Trump had done. 
Two other women testified that Mr. Trump had sexually assaulted them years 
ago in ways that were similar to the way Ms. Carroll described being 
attacked.
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Carol Martin leaves court, wearing sunglasses.
Carol Martin, a friend, said that Ms. Carroll had confided in her soon 
after the attack.Credit...Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times

Ms. Carroll was able to bring her lawsuit after New York State last year 
enacted a new law granting adult sexual abuse victims a one-year window to 
sue people they say abused them, even if the criminal statute of 
limitations had long expired.

“For far too long, survivors of sexual assault faced a wall of doubt and 
intimidation,” her lawyer, Ms. Kaplan, said after the verdict. “We hope and 
believe today’s verdict will be an important step in tearing that wall 
down.”

While Mr. Trump avoided the trial, he repeatedly attacked Ms. Carroll from 
outside the courtroom during the proceeding, initially on Truth Social and 
last week in an interview from a golf course in Ireland, where he suggested 
he would return to New York to testify in his own defense. In the end, he 
did not.

In his closing argument, Mr. Tacopina argued that there was no need for Mr. 
Trump to appear, because the incident at Bergdorf’s did not happen. He said 
that he presented his client’s defense through his cross-examination of Ms. 
Carroll and her witnesses.

“If something is completely made up," Mr. Tacopina told the jury, “the only 
way to defend yourself against that accusation is by challenging the people 
who made it up and the story itself.”

During this cross-examination, one area he focused on was Ms. Carroll’s 
testimony that she did not scream during the assault.

“I’m not a screamer,” she responded, adding that she was in too much of a 
panic. “I was fighting,” she said. “You can’t beat up on me for not 
screaming.”
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Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue
The attack occurred in Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury store on Fifth 
Avenue.Credit...Stephanie Keith for The New York Times

Mr. Tacopina replied: “I’m not beating up on you. I’m asking you questions, 
Ms. Carroll.”

“No,” Ms. Carroll interjected. She said that one of the reasons women do 
not come forward “is because they are always asked why didn’t you scream. 
Some women scream. Some women don’t. It keeps women silent.”

Ms. Carroll, her voice rising as she testified, said, “I’m telling you, he 
raped me, whether I screamed or not.”

The verdict comes as Mr. Trump confronts a barrage of legal actions. In 
April, he pleaded not guilty to New York fraud charges stemming from hush 
money paid to a porn star, and he faces a civil fraud lawsuit brought by 
New York’s attorney general.

Mr. Trump is also under investigation in Georgia over attempted 
interference in the 2020 election, and a federal special counsel is 
examining the discovery of sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as 
his role in the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the 
Capitol. Mr. Trump has denied wrongdoing in all the cases, and argued that 
the lawsuits and investigations are meant to drag him down.

Ms. Carroll, during her testimony, was asked by another of her lawyers, 
Michael J. Ferrara, whether she was glad she had spoken publicly about what 
Mr. Trump did to her or regretted doing so.

“I have regretted this about a hundred times, but in the end — in the end, 
being able to get my day in court finally is everything to me,” she said. 
“I’m glad that I got to tell my story in court.”

Nate Schweber, Hurubie Meko and Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.
Kate Christobek
May 9, 2023, 8:21 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Kate Christobek

On Truth Social, Trump continued his attacks, focusing on Judge Lewis A. 
Kaplan. He wrote: "What else can you expect from a Trump Hating, Clinton 
appointed judge, who went out of his way to make sure that the result was 
as negative as it could possible be, speaking to, and in control of, a jury 
from an anti-Trump area which is probably the worst place in the U.S. for 
me to get a fair 'trial.'”
Nate Schweber
May 9, 2023, 7:03 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Nate Schweber
Trump’s lawyer vows to appeal the verdict.
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Donald J. Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said outside federal court that 
his client would appeal.Credit...Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times

Outside of the courthouse in Lower Manhattan, Donald J. Trump’s lawyer, 
Joseph Tacopina, said the trial had been unfair in several ways and his 
client intended to appeal the verdict.

Mr. Tacopina said Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who oversaw the case in federal 
court, had displayed a bias toward Ms. Carroll in several decisions. He 
called the court “highly prejudicial.”

For starters, Mr. Tacopina said, the judge allowed E. Jean Carroll’s 
lawyers to play for the jury the Access Hollywood tape in which Mr. Trump 
boasted about how his status as a celebrity gave him the ability to kiss 
and grab women’s genitalia without asking.

“There were things that happened in this case that were beyond the pale,” 
Mr. Tacopina said. He added: “In New York you can’t get a fair trial.”

Mr. Tacopina defended Mr. Trump’s decision not to testify.

“This was a circus atmosphere, and having him be here would be more of a 
circus,” Mr. Tacopina said. He added that Mr. Trump could do little more 
than say, “‘I didn’t do it?’ And he said that under oath here. It’s hard to 
prove a negative.”

He said that he thought the anonymous jury was particularly unfair to Mr. 
Trump’s side.

“We should have been able to tell something about the background of these 
people,” he said. “Unfortunately, having anonymous jurors, even kept from 
the lawyers, I don’t think was fair or was right.”

When asked if the verdict would derail Trump’s presidential campaign, Mr. 
Tacopina had a one word answer.

“Nope,” he said.
Read the Completed Jury Verdict Form in the Trump-Carroll Case

A jury, which held former President Donald J. Trump liable on Tuesday for 
the sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 
million, completed a verdict form that spelled out possible findings.
Jonathan Weisman
May 9, 2023, 6:20 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Jonathan Weisman
Most of Trump’s rivals for the G.O.P. nomination avoid attacking him over 
the verdict.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking at a lectern.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a Republican, remained quiet after a jury 
found that former President Donald J. Trump was liable for sexual abuse. 
Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

A Manhattan jury’s decision to hold former President Trump liable for 
sexual abuse and defamation came as competitors for the Republican 
nomination for president were trying to either win over Mr. Trump’s 
supporters or break through as the main voice of the opposition to the 
former president.

Many of Mr. Trump’s rivals and potential rivals stayed quiet as news of the 
verdict spread, including Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Senator Tim Scott 
of South Carolina and former Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina.

But Asa Hutchinson, a former governor of Arkansas and a longtime critic of 
Mr. Trump, was quick to seize the opposition mantle. He said that, as a 
former prosecutor, he had seen “firsthand how a cavalier and arrogant 
contempt for the rule of law can backfire.”

“The jury verdict should be treated with seriousness and is another example 
of the indefensible behavior of Donald Trump,” Mr. Hutchinson said.

One long-shot for the party’s nomination, the entrepreneur and author Vivek 
Ramaswamy, showed a reluctance to challenge the former president and his 
legion of supporters, who steadfastly believe in Mr. Trump’s innocence.

“I’ll say what everyone else is privately thinking: If the defendant 
weren’t named Donald Trump, would there even be a lawsuit?” Mr. Ramaswamy 
said in a statement, citing the age of the allegation, which goes back to 
the 1990s, and other legal actions pending against the former president.

“Believe me, it would be a lot easier for me if Trump weren’t in this 
race,” said Mr. Ramaswamy, who has a law degree from Yale. “But in America 
we don’t weaponize the law with decades-old allegations to undercut our 
political opponents.”
Lola Fadulu
May 9, 2023, 5:48 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Lola Fadulu
New York law gave jurors three types of battery to consider in the Trump 
case.
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Cameras outside a courthouse.
New York law spells out precisely what acts constitute what sort of abuse. 
Credit...Brittainy Newman for The New York Times

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Monday morning walked jurors through a verdict 
form, explaining what battery meant in the context of a civil lawsuit and 
that there were gradations of that wrongful act.

He offered three types of battery for which Mr. Trump might be liable under 
New York law: rape, sexual abuse and forcible touching.

To find that Mr. Trump raped Ms. Carroll, the jurors needed to believe that 
it was more likely than not that Mr. Trump engaged in sexual intercourse by 
physical force. The judge explained that “any penetration of the penis into 
the vaginal opening” constituted intercourse.

To find that Mr. Trump sexually abused Ms. Carroll, the jurors needed to 
believe that Mr. Trump subjected Ms. Carroll to sexual contact by physical 
force. Sexual contact is defined as touching the sexual or other intimate 
parts of another person, Judge Kaplan said.

Forcible touching, the judge said, “includes squeezing, grabbing, pinching, 
rubbing or other bodily contact that involves the application of some level 
of pressure to the victim’s sexual or intimate parts.”
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Read the Completed Jury Verdict Form in the Trump-Carroll Case

A jury, which held former President Donald J. Trump liable on Tuesday for 
the sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 
million, completed a verdict form that spelled out possible findings.
Read Document 3 pages

The jury ultimately determined that Ms. Carroll had proved that Mr. Trump 
sexually abused her and that $2 million would “fairly and adequately 
compensate her.”

Jurors found that Mr. Trump should pay Ms. Carroll $20,000 in punitive 
damages because his conduct was, as stated in the language of the verdict 
form, “willfully or wantonly negligent, reckless, or done with a conscious 
disregard of the rights of Ms. Carroll.”

The jury also awarded damages on her allegations of defamation.
Michael Grynbaum
May 9, 2023, 5:31 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Michael Grynbaum

Mr. Trump is still set to appear live on CNN on Wednesday evening for a 
town hall in New Hampshire. The network said it had received no indication 
of a change in Mr. Trump’s plans.
Ben Weiser
May 9, 2023, 5:11 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Ben Weiser

E. Jean Carroll has issued a statement on the verdict: “I filed this 
lawsuit against Donald Trump to clear my name and to get my life back. 
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."
Nate Schweber
May 9, 2023, 4:57 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Nate Schweber

Trump's lawyer Joseph Tacopina said outside the courthouse that his client 
would appeal.

“Strange verdict,” he said. “This was a rape claim, this was a rape case 
all along and the jury rejected that, made other findings. We’ll obviously 
be appealing those other findings.”
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Credit...Brittainy Newman for The New York Times
Nate Schweber
May 9, 2023, 5:04 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Nate Schweber

Tacopina said Trump was vindicated by being found not liable for rape, and 
added that it was impossible for Trump to get a fair trial in New York 
City.
Jonah Bromwich
May 9, 2023, 4:08 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Jonah Bromwich

Trump had been thriving politically before the verdict and it is not clear 
how — or whether — the jury’s determination will affect his momentum. 
Criminal investigations against him have done little to hurt him with his 
supporters. It remains to be seen whether the verdict will be a different 
story.
Lola Fadulu
May 9, 2023, 4:08 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Lola Fadulu
Here’s a closer look at the $5 million in damages that the jury awarded 
Carroll.
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E. Jean Carroll wearing sunglasses and smiling as she leaves court on 
Tuesday in New York.
E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday. She was awarded $5 million in 
damages.Credit...Brittainy Newman for The New York Times

The jury determined that E. Jean Carroll, who accused Donald J. Trump of 
rape and defamation, should be paid a total of $5 million in damages. Here 
is a breakdown:

    The jury decided that Ms. Carroll proved by a preponderance of the 
evidence that Mr. Trump sexually abused her, and that she was injured by a 
result of his conduct. The jury decided that $2 million would fairly and 
adequately compensate her for her injuries.

    The jury also decided that Mr. Trump should pay Ms. Carroll $20,000 in 
punitive damages because his conduct was “willfully or wantonly negligent, 
reckless, or done with a conscious disregard of the rights of Ms. Carroll, 
or was so reckless as to amount to such disregard.”

    The jury also found that Mr. Trump defamed Ms. Carroll and that she was 
injured as a result of his October 2022 Truth Social post about her. They 
decided that she should be paid $1 million for damages unrelated to a 
reputation repair program, and $1.7 million for a reputation repair program 
only.

    The jury also found that Mr. Trump “acted maliciously, out of hatred, 
ill will, spite, or wanton, reckless, or willful disregard of the rights of 
another” and that Ms. Carroll should be paid $280,000.

Daniel Victor
May 9, 2023, 4:06 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Daniel Victor

What timing: Trump is scheduled to appear at a forum airing on CNN on 
Wednesday, his first appearance on the network since the 2016 presidential 
campaign. The network’s morning show co-host Kaitlan Collins is set to 
moderate, taking questions from Republicans and independents.
Jonah Bromwich
May 9, 2023, 3:58 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Jonah Bromwich

Carroll brought her lawsuit under the Adult Survivors Act, a New York law 
signed in 2022 that allowed victims of abuse a one-time opportunity to sue 
those responsible, even if the statute of limitations was up. Gov. Kathy 
Hochul of New York said on Tuesday after the verdict, “I was proud to sign 
the Adult Survivors Act so brave survivors like E. Jean Carroll could have 
their day in court.”
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Credit...Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times
May 9, 2023, 3:58 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Lola FaduluKate Christobek and Benjamin Weiser
E. Jean Carroll described an assault in minute detail.
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E. Jean Carroll said in court that being raped by Donald J. Trump was an 
event that carried lifelong consequences.Credit...Jefferson Siegel for The 
New York Times

Across three days of vivid and sometimes contentious testimony, E. Jean 
Carroll recounted for a jury the day she said Donald J. Trump attacked her, 
sparring with a lawyer for the former president as she told her story.

Ms. Carroll, a former magazine columnist, said in a Manhattan federal court 
that the encounter with Mr. Trump started with banter after he stopped her 
at the 58th Street exit of the Bergdorf Goodman department store nearly 
three decades ago.

Ms. Carroll said Mr. Trump asked her to help select a gift for a female 
friend. “I love to give advice, and here was Donald Trump asking me for 
advice about buying a present,” she said.

She described to the jury how they went to the lingerie section and 
stumbled upon a gray-blue bodysuit. Mr. Trump directed her to “go put this 
on,” she said. She declined and told him to put it on instead — banter that 
she described as “jesting and joshing.”

Then, she said, Mr. Trump motioned her inside the dressing room, 
immediately shut the door and shoved her against the wall.

Ms. Carroll said Mr. Trump used his weight to pin her and pulled down her 
tights. She grew emotional as she spoke. “I was pushing him back,” she 
said, adding, “I was almost too frightened to think.”

“His fingers went into my vagina, which was extremely painful,” Ms. Carroll 
said. Then, she said, he inserted his penis.

Ms. Carroll said she used her knee to push Mr. Trump away and fled.

The event had lifelong consequences, she said: “It left me unable to ever 
have a romantic life again.”

Mr. Trump has denied Ms. Carroll’s allegations. During cross-examination, a 
lawyer for the former president questioned Ms. Carroll about her politics, 
the decades it took her to come forward and her inability to recall the 
year that the alleged attack took place.

Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, insinuated that Ms. Carroll 
strategically chose to reveal her story to increase sales of a memoir in 
which she first publicly brought her allegation.

Ms. Carroll, however, said that she decided to go public after The New York 
Times’s “bombshell” reporting about Harvey Weinstein, which set off the 
#MeToo movement. She said that telling her story about Mr. Trump might be 
“a way to change the culture of sexual violence.”

The lawyer pressed Ms. Carroll repeatedly about basic facts, probing for 
inconsistencies and asking about her inability to remember precisely when 
in 1995 or 1996 the encounter occurred.

“I wish to heaven we could give you a date,” she replied.

Mr. Tacopina also questioned Ms. Carroll about whether she had screamed for 
help.

“I’m not a screamer,” Ms. Carroll responded. “I was fighting,” she said. 
“You can’t beat up on me for not screaming.”

Mr. Tacopina said he was not, but Ms. Carroll, her voice rising, said from 
the witness stand that women often keep silent about attacks because they 
fear being asked what they could have done to stop it.

“They are always asked, ‘Why didn’t you scream?’” Ms. Carroll said.

“He raped me, whether I screamed or not,” she declared.
Maggie Haberman
May 9, 2023, 3:58 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Maggie Haberman

More from Trump, this time to Fox News Digital: "We’ll appeal. We got 
treated very badly by the Clinton-appointed judge,” Trump said.

He added: “I have no idea who this woman is.”
Lola Fadulu
May 9, 2023, 3:56 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Lola Fadulu

Before discharging the jury, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan suggested to the jurors 
that they “not identify yourselves, not now and not for a long time.” This 
jury, composed of six men and three women, has been anonymous throughout 
the trial, even to the judge and the lawyers. The judge said during jury 
selection at the end of April that the jurors would be picked up in cars 
from assembly points and be brought into the courthouse through a garage. 
He said at the time that it was “all for your protection.”
Jonah Bromwich
May 9, 2023, 3:55 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Jonah Bromwich

Trump was first heard discussing assaults on women when the “Access 
Hollywood” tape became public during the 2016 campaign. When he won the 
presidential election after that, it seemed as though the tape had 
ultimately had little impact. But Carroll’s lawyers used the tape to build 
a damning case against Trump, one that ultimately proved successful, as 
jurors appear to have accepted the connection between his infamous words 
then — “when you’re a star, they let you do it” — and his attack on 
Carroll.
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Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Maggie Astor
May 9, 2023, 3:49 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Maggie Astor

RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual-violence organization, released a 
statement after the verdict. “We thank E. Jean Carroll, who will inspire 
survivors to come forward to tell their stories and face perpetrators,” 
said the group’s president and founder, Scott Berkowitz. “This case 
demonstrates that all perpetrators, no matter how powerful, can and will be 
held accountable.”
Jonathan Weisman
May 9, 2023, 3:49 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Jonathan Weisman

The first response from a rival of Trump in the Republican primaries came 
from a long-shot, former Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas: “Over the course 
of my over 25 years of experience in the courtroom, I have seen first hand 
how a cavalier and arrogant contempt for the rule of law can backfire. The 
jury verdict should be treated with seriousness and is another example of 
the indefensible behavior of Donald Trump.”
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Credit...Kaiti Sullivan for The New York Times
Lola Fadulu
May 9, 2023, 3:48 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Lola Fadulu

Ashlee Humphreys, an expert in sociology and communications, testified on 
Carroll’s behalf that it would cost as much as $2.7 million to run a 
reputational repair campaign for Carroll.
Maggie Haberman
May 9, 2023, 3:45 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Maggie Haberman

Here is part of the Trump campaign’s first response: “In jurisdictions 
wholly controlled by the Democratic Party our nation’s justice system is 
now compromised by extremist left-wing politics. We have allowed false and 
totally made-up claims from troubled individuals to interfere with our 
elections, doing great damage.”

The campaign added: “This case will be appealed, and we will ultimately 
win.”
Daniel Victor
May 9, 2023, 3:43 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Daniel Victor

On Truth Social, Trump responded: “I have absolutely no idea who this woman 
is. This verdict is a disgrace — a continuation of the greatest witch hunt 
of all time!”
Lola Fadulu
May 9, 2023, 3:41 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Lola Fadulu

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said that for the jury to establish that Trump raped 
Carroll, she had to prove that Trump engaged in sexual intercourse with 
her, and that he did it without her consent. The judge said that sexual 
intercourse includes “any penetration of the penis into the vaginal 
opening.”
Kate Christobek
May 9, 2023, 3:36 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Kate Christobek

Carroll just walked out of the Manhattan Federal Courthouse smiling ear to 
ear and holding hands with her attorney Roberta Kaplan.  
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Kate Christobek
May 9, 2023, 3:36 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Kate Christobek

A woman yelled to her, “You’re so brave and beautiful,” to which Carroll 
said, “Thank you, thank you so much.” She didn’t answer any questions and 
got in a car to leave.
Ben Weiser
May 9, 2023, 3:08 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Ben Weiser

The jury has found that Carroll did not prove Trump had raped her, but they 
did determine that he had sexually abused her. The jurors also found that 
Trump had defamed Carroll when he called her accusations false. They 
awarded her $5 million damages.
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Credit...Sophie Park for The New York Times
Kate Christobek
May 9, 2023, 2:55 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

Kate Christobek
A civil trial differs in key respects from a criminal case.
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The jurors deliberated for about three hours on Tuesday before reaching 
their verdict.Credit...Brittainy Newman for The New York Times

The accusation at the heart of the trial that just ended in Manhattan 
federal court sounds like a classic criminal case — an alleged sexual 
assault in the dressing room of a luxury department store.

But the jury of nine New Yorkers were not asked to decide if former 
president Donald J. Trump was guilty of raping the writer E. Jean Carroll 
as she testified he did in the mid 1990s. No criminal charges were ever 
brought.

Instead, Ms. Carroll sued Mr. Trump for battery and defamation.

That means the jury was asked to determine Mr. Trump’s “liability” — 
whether Mr. Trump is legally responsible for harming Ms. Carroll in ways 
that meet New York State’s definition of battery.

The jurors began their deliberations just before noon on Tuesday. Their 
verdicts must be unanimous.

To have Mr. Trump found liable for battery, Ms. Carroll must clear a lower 
bar than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of a criminal trial. 
Instead, jurors must find that the “preponderance of the evidence” supports 
Ms. Carroll’s claim to have been raped, sexually abused or forcibly touched 
by Mr. Trump, meaning the jury believes the accusation is more likely true 
than untrue. The jury must also decide how much to award Ms. Carroll in 
damages if they side with her.

The jury also examined Ms. Carroll’s defamation claim, stemming from a 2022 
post on Truth Social in which Mr. Trump called Ms. Carroll’s case “a 
complete con job” and “a Hoax and a lie.” The jurors have to decide if Mr. 
Trump knew what he was saying was false but said it anyway to meet a 
standard known as “actual malice.”

Should the jurors find Mr. Trump liable for defamation, they will also 
assess what, if any, additional damages to award to Ms. Carroll.

Ms. Carroll has not requested a specific amount of damages she is seeking 
for her battery claim. Last week, an expert witness called by Ms. Carroll 
testified it would cost as much as $2.7 million to run a campaign that 
would repair her reputation.
 

Ben Weiser

A verdict has been reached in the E. Jean Carroll v. Trump trial, according 
to a court spokesman. It will be delivered at 3 p.m. today in the 
courtroom. The jury began deliberating today shortly before noon.
May 9, 2023, 2:49 p.m. ETMay 9, 2023

 

During closing arguments on Monday in the civil trial over the writer E. 
Jean Carroll’s accusation that former President Donald J. Trump raped her, 
one of her lawyers focused on the man who was missing from the courtroom.

Mr. Trump did not testify on his own behalf or even show up.

“He just decided not to be here,” the lawyer, Michael J. Ferrara, told the 
jury on Monday. “He never looked you in the eye and denied raping Ms. 
Carroll.”

He added, “You should draw the conclusion that that’s because he did it.”

But Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said that there was no reason for 
his client to appear in court. The rape allegation, he said, was a complete 
invention.

“Amazing. Odd. Inconceivable. Unbelievable,” Mr. Tacopina said. “Everything 
in this case is one of those things.”

As closing arguments began Monday morning, Roberta A. Kaplan, Ms. Carroll’s 
lead lawyer, took the jury through the evidence, Ms. Carroll’s testimony 
and witnesses’ statements that she said supported it.

Ms. Kaplan said the defense’s position that Ms. Carroll and her witnesses 
were all lying was preposterous. “Donald Trump’s defense here is 
essentially that there is a vast conspiracy against him,” she said.

Over his closing that lasted more than two hours, Mr. Tacopina challenged 
not only Ms. Carroll’s testimony but also that of nearly every other 
witness who took the stand in her case.

“Donald Trump doesn’t have a story to tell here, other than to say it’s a 
lie,” Mr. Tacopina said in his summation. He questioned who might even be 
appropriate to call to the witness stand, asking, “How do you prove a 
negative?”
 

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