To pay $5 m to victim
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
Immediate-past President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has been found liable for sexual abuse in the civil rape trial filed against him by E Jean Carroll.
Trump who was convicted on Tuesday by the jury was also found to have defamed the magazine columnist.
The jury, however, did not indict the former US Republican President for rape.
She has been awarded a cost of $5m in a payout after a unanimous verdict was reached by the nine jurors in less than three hours.
Both sides delivered closing arguments in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, with Ms Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan saying: “In a real sense, Donald Trump is a witness against himself.”
Mr Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina countered that while the former president’s “grab ‘em by the pussy” comments in the infamous Access Hollywood tape are “rude” and “gross,” he claimed “that doesn’t make Ms Carroll’s unbelievable story believable.”
Meanwhile, Trump who is aspiring to contest for the Republican presidential ticket ahead of the 2024 presidential race, has said that the judgment would not scuttle his ambition.
(With additional materials from Independent.co.uk)
