<p>A federal jury in New York found that former President Donald Trump committed battery against E. Jean Carroll, a 79-year-old former columnist, and later defamed her while denying her claim that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.</p>
<p>The jury in the civil trial rejected Carroll&#8217;s claims that Trump raped her.</p>
<p>The former president was ordered to pay a total of $5 million to Carroll, $2 million for battery and $3 for defamation.</p>
<p>The jury of six men and three women deliberated for a little over two and a half hours before returning their unanimous verdicts.</p>
<p>Carroll claimed that Trump asked her for help selecting a gift for a female friend after he encountered her inside the Bergdorf Goodman department in the mid-1990s. She told the jury that he eventually followed her into a dressing room after he asked her to try some clothes on and that he raped her.</p>
<p>Carroll claimed that the event impacted the rest of her life, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/09/nyregion/trump-carroll-rape-trial-verdict">saying</a>: “It left me unable to ever have a romantic life again.”</p>
<p>Trump attorney Joe Tacopina told jurors in closing arguments that Carroll&#8217;s claims were not substantiated by the facts of the case.</p>
<p>&#8220;The facts in evidence made plain here that E. Jean Carroll&#8217;s story is not worthy of your belief, not even close,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Her story – and it&#8217;s just that, a story – is not true, she was not raped at Bergdorf Goodman&#8217;s. She was not defamed by being called out on making up that story.&#8221;</p>
<p>Judge Lewis Kaplan told the jurors they could identify themselves to the public if they wanted to now that the case was over but urged them not to.</p>
<p>&#8220;My advice to you is not to identify yourselves. Not now and not for a long time,&#8221; Kaplan said. &#8220;If you&#8217;re one who elects to speak to others and to identify yourselves to others, I direct you not to identify anyone else who sat on this jury. Each of you owes that to the other whatever you decided for yourself.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump responded to the ruling on social media, writing: &#8220;I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE &#8211; A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s team later released a statement saying that they are going to appeal the case, which they described as an effort from the Democratic Party to stop the former president&#8217;s 2024 campaign.</p>
<p>&#8220;Trump will never stop fighting for the American people, no matter what the radical Democrats dream up next,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;This case will be appealed, and we will ultimately win.&#8221;</p>
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