E Jean Carroll

* cnn.com/2023/05/09/ Jury finds Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in civil case, awards her $5 million. By Lauren del Valle, CNN Updated 12:04 PM EDT, Wed May 10, 2023. While the jury found that Trump sexually abused her, sufficient to hold him liable for battery, the jury did not find that Carroll proved he raped her.

* A New York jury has concluded that it is more likely than not that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed E Jean Carroll.

The verdict may be a harbinger of political and legal damage to come. While the ruling may not make a dent in Mr Trump's base within the Republican Party, where his supporters view the US legal system with scepticism and have stood by him through all manners of adversity, it could have a lasting sting.

The response of two Republican senators highlights the risk this moment poses to his 2024 bid to regain the White House. "It has a cumulative effect," said Senator John Thune of South Dakota. "People are going to have to decide if they want to deal with all the drama."

"I don't think he can get elected," warned John Cornyn of Texas. "You can't win a general election with just your base." In the end, Mr Trump may have been his own worst enemy in this case.

* Zweifel sind im Gerichtssaal ein hohes Gut. Das New Yorker Urteil heißt nicht, dass Trump auch in einem Strafprozess schuldig gesprochen wäre. Der Wähler aber weiß genug. Immerhin eine Handvoll namhafter Republikaner hat die zivilrechtliche Verurteilung Donald Trumps in erster Instanz wegen sexueller Nötigung zum Anlass genommen, vorsichtig Zweifel zu äußern, ob ein Kandidat mit so vielen „rechtlichen Scherereien“ die beste Wahl wäre, um das Weiße Haus für die Republikaner zurückzuerobern. Würde das nicht zu sehr von der politischen Botschaft „ablenken“? Das ist weit entfernt von der überfälligen Feststellung, dass sexuelle Nötigung ein sehr ernsthafter Vorwurf ist, und dass Frauen auf beiden Seiten des politischen Grabens. Der frühere amerikanische Präsident Donald Trump ist in einem Zivilprozess in New York wegen sexueller Nötigung und Verleumdung zur Zahlung von fünf Millionen Dollar verurteilt worden. Das gaben die Geschworenen am Dienstag nach rund zweieinhalb Stunden Beratungen bekannt. Die heute 79 Jahre alte amerikanische Autorin E. Jean Carroll hatte Trump vorgeworfen, sie 1996 in einem New Yorker Luxuskaufhaus vergewaltigt zu haben. Trump wies die Vorwürfe zurück und bezeichnete sie als Lügnerin. Laut der neunköpfigen Jury soll er ihr wegen Verleumdung und Körperverletzung nun eine Entschädigung in Höhe von fünf Millionen Dollar zahlen. Trump bewirbt sich derzeit um die Präsidentschaftskandidatur der Republikaner. Sein Anwalt kündigte Berufung gegen die Entscheidung an. „Er ist bereit, weiterzumachen. Er wird mit einer Berufung dagegen ankämpfen“, sagte Joseph Tacopina. Er begrüße, dass der schwerwiegendere Vorwurf der Vergewaltigung abgewiesen worden sei. (Sofia Dreisbach, Politische Korrespondentin der FAZ für Nordamerika mit Sitz in Washington.)

## Clouds

It’s been nearly eight years since he rode down the escalator in Trump Tower and more than two years since the January 6, 2021, insurrection, but the legal drama surrounding Donald Trump has never been more intense.
In New York, a hush money payment to an adult film star has resulted in his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury over his alleged role in the scheme – the first time in American history that a current or former president faces criminal charges.
Also in Manhattan, a federal jury found Trump sexually abused former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in a luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and awarded her about $5 million in the battery and defamation civil case.
In Atlanta, a select grand jury has investigated the efforts by Trump and allies to overturn his election loss in Georgia in 2020.
In Washington, a Justice Department special counsel is looking at the 2020 election aftermath and the removal of presidential documents to Florida.

Trump and his company deny any wrongdoing or criminality in all matters, state and federal, and he has aggressively maintained his innocence.

## Trumps countersue

* Donald Trump countersues E Jean Carroll for defamation. (The former president alleges the writer falsely accused him of rape after a jury found he sexually abused her.) BBC, 28 June, 2023

* Die Gegenklage Trumps am 28. 6. 2023

She said *"oh yes he did, oh yes he did".*

The other lawsuit of Carroll is solely about defamation. Ms Carroll amended it after Mr Trump made comments on CNN in which he denied her allegations and made disparaging remarks about her.

She is seeking an additional $10m in damages over those comments.

Mr Trump's latest filing is a counterclaim in that lawsuit and suggests the multi-front legal fight will continue for some time.

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## Gegenklage abgewiesen - August 2023

* *Judge tosses Trump countersuit against E Jean Carroll. (A judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s countersuit against advice columnist E Jean Carroll, who earlier this year won a $5m defamation judgment against the former president after a jury found he sexually abused her)* - theguardian.com us-news / 2023/aug/07

## reputation

The clash with judge Lewis Kaplan was merely the latest in a string of Trump’s in-court fights during two civil trials in New York over the past several months, episodes that offer a preview of what’s to come if any of the former president’s criminal trials are held this year as he runs for president.

Meanwhile, on the witness stand, E. Jean Carroll told the jury how Trump’s statements after she went public about him allegedly sexually assaulting her shattered her reputation and led to an onslaught of threatening messages.

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