there s a verdict. the jury in donald trump s civil rape case deliberated for just about three hours. the judge announced he will read the verdict at 3:00 p.m. it is 3:00 p.m. the lawyers are in the room. the judge is in the room. the jury is in the room. so any moment now we will hear from they decided. six men and three women were charged with that deciding. one, did donald trump rape carroll and did he defame her when he said she was lying. if so, how much money does carroll deserve to be fairly and adequately compensated for her injuries? in closing arguments, her attorney told the jury donald trump didn t show up because he knew he did it. trump s attorney said trump didn t testify because there was nothing to testify to. he said the whole story was an unbelievable work of fiction. kaplin said carroll was exactly donald trump s type and she played the video deposition where trump mistook carroll for his ex-wife, marla maples. he said she couldn t give a date to when the
$2.7 million. of course, that s not the entire quantum of damages that might be appropriate here. in addition to the loss of her reputation, she suffered mental anguish, fear, distress and those are proper considerations for the jury. her team never put a dollar figure on that and in their closing arguments, they told the jury we re not going to put a price on that because this has never been about money for miss carroll. this is about regaining her good name and we re not going to insult you by trying to put a dollar figure on that. it s really anyone s guess how high the high could go although the component of it that has to do with reputational damage could be as high as $2.7 million. donald trump never showed up to testify. carroll s lawyer said that s because he knew that he did what he did. he knew that he raped carroll as she alleged. tacopena said no, he can t prove a negative. they never gave a date.
can make a more informed decision as to whether he in fact has a conflict of interest. between his verdict, the impatience with his own client and whether he can represent mr. trump fairly in that case, i would not be surprised if he exits stage left and we see todd blanch and susan necklace handle that trial on their own. of course, i can always been wrong. i often am, but those are my predictions. donald trump has responded. what s he saying. i ll read from his social media account. quote, i have absolutely no idea who this woman is. this verdict is a disgrace. a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. that is donald trump s statement here in the last two minutes. of course, donald trump consistently denied knowing carroll and denied this ever happened, but of course, the jury here today unanimously
mistook her for his ex-wife arguing carroll was exactly his type. but going back, he has been accused of this a lot over the years, especially since he started running for president. he always denied it. he can no longer undeny it with the same credibility because a jury has found him liable for doing that. it s not a criminal conviction. it s a civil conviction so it s a preponderance of the evidence. it s a lower bar but still. a jury has found him liable for sexual assault. exactly what you just said. over the last eight years, the number of conversations that you and i have had with voters who have justified voting for donald trump despite these allegations of sexual harassment or sexual assault by more than a dozen women. they ve pushed them aside because donald trump consistently denied them. donald trump suggested consistently this was part of a political hoax to undermine not
only him, but a greater political movement. ultimately, e. jean carroll took him to trial on that. claiming that she was defamed because of that october post in which he said this was part of a hoax and just like her allegations, all the others in his words, were also false and now what you have and if i may, what the other republican candidates running for president of the united states has is a jury. here today answering the very specific question, mr. trump sexually abused miss carroll, a jury answered unanimously yes. now the question here is when we re talking in political terms, morning consult polling released, showed donald trump who are in this 2024 primary with his largest lead yet. 60% to 19% against ron desantis. we have seen no republican come attack donald trump over the e. jean carroll case here. we had seen them over the last