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03:33 PM: Explaining the verdict and the $5 million in damages

The jurors in this civil case in Manhattan were tasked with weighing whether to find former president Donald Trump liable on two claims that writer E. Jean Carroll included in her lawsuit: battery and defamation.

After two weeks of testimony, the jurors deliberated for a little under three hours before siding with Carroll on both claims.

The jurors did not find that Trump had raped Carroll, which she has contended for nearly four years.

But the jurors concluded that Trump sexually abused her, and that she was injured as a result. They awarded Carroll $2 million in compensation for those injuries, along with $20,000 in punitive damages also concluding that Trump’s actions were reckless.

The jurors were also asked to consider whether Carroll generally convinced them that Trump defamed her with a statement he posted to social media last year, assailing her as a liar. Jurors agreed that Trump did so, awarding Carroll $1.7 million in damages for “reputational repair” and $1 million for other damages. They added another $280,000 in punitive damages after concluding that Trump acted recklessly here too.

By Mark Berman​

Live updates: Jury finds Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll, awards $5M in damages — The Washington Post

I am perplexed as to how the jurors did not find that Trump raped Carroll, but did find that Trump sexually abused her and injured Carroll as a result.

 

With all due respect, the only way one can seriously ask this question is to have Rip Van Winkled their way through the last eight years.

 

Yeah, I don't understand that, either.

 

91 percent of registered Republicans don't think Trump should resign over the Carroll verdict.

 

I read that as fingers, not penile penetration. That might have been a split the baby guilty, but it's a conviction for sexual assault. It'll do.

 

Lock him up!

 

I think a couple of weeks in the slammer would do wonders for the next time a judge told him to shut his yap.

 

Absolute psycho

 

Stormy Daniels nods in agreement.