Trump News for Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Senate Republicans aired concerns Tuesday about former President Trump’s viability in a 2024 presidential election after a civil jury found he had sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll and ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters that he does not believe Trump stands a chance in a November…

America has found itself in a surreal situation over the past two weeks as the former Elle magazine advice columnist E Jean Carroll took Donald Trump to a civil court in New York over an alleged sexual assault in the 1990s.

They include the unusual step of keeping jurors anonymous from both the public and lawyers. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Republicans are divided over whether former President Trump’s 2024 reelection chances could be hurt following a verdict reached Tuesday in a case involving writer E. Jean Carroll. A federal jury in Manhattan found Trump liable of sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages.  In a lawsuit filed last year, Carroll…

Writer E. Jean Carroll said the verdict that found former President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her is a win for every woman who “suffered because she was not believed.”  “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…

Whether this case will loom over his 2024 presidential campaign is unclear; the MAGA crowd has been unmoved by many things that cause most Americans despair.

Colleen Shogan, a political scientist, was confirmed as archivist of the United States in a 52-45 vote.

Former Elle magazine advice columnist E Jean Carroll said on Wednesday she felt 'fantastic'

‘Trump is a sex abuser,’ the papers proclaim after a jury returned a verdict in the former US president’s civil case.

A jury finds for E. Jean Carroll but will GOP voters care?

The legal scrutiny could feed his preferred narrative that he is being unfairly targeted. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Trump's legal team did not call any witnesses during the trial, and Trump himself did not testify in court during the trial.

Trump was accused of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll in a department store in 1996

A verdict was released in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case one day prior to a network town hall event scheduled to feature the former president.

Carroll, 79, testified during the civil trial that Trump, 76, raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan in either 1995 or 1996, then harmed her reputation by writing in an October 2022 post on his Truth Social platform that her claims were a "complete con job," "a hoax" and "a lie." Trump was absent throughout the trial which began on April 25.

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A jury in New York has decided that Donald Trump sexually abused a writer in a changing room at a department store in the 1990s and then defamed her by branding her a liar. He has decried the verdict as a "witch hunt".

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.

Readers react to the jury’s decision.

Breaking ranks with other announced Republican presidential candidates, Hutchinson trashed Trump’s “cavalier and arrogant contempt for the rule of law" in light of the verdict in the E. Jean Carroll civil rape trial.

A new first — and a new low — for the former president.

The jurors who found that former President Trump sexually abused author E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s were advised to remain anonymous “for a long time.” CNN reported that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan informed the jurors that they could now identify themselves if they wish after they were dismissed, but advised them not to.…

Former President Donald Trump raged that he has no clue who E. Jean Carroll — even is after a federal jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation and ordered he pay her $5 million in damages.

Jurors in the US have decided that former US President Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the 90s.

The writer was awarded $5 million total in damages.