good evening. , tonight in the eyes of a federal giardia of his peers to donald trump, the once president of the united states, is a sexual abuser. six men and three women found him liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll at a department store in the 1990s, and then defaming her about it last year on his social media site. the jury took just under three hours to reach their verdict and reward carroll approximately $5 million in damages. in a moment, we will be joined by jessica leads, testifying during the trial that a young donald trump groped her on a flight in the 70s. her lawyers neither put on defense, nor called him as a witness, leading the plaintiffs to play damaging portions of trump s testimony. they heard the access hollywood tape in which he says that stars can get away with women and heard them during the deposition, doubling down on that. historically, that s true with stars. it s true the stars that they can grab women by the ? if you lo
site, quoting now i m absolutely no idea who this woman, is this verdict is a disgrace. a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all-time. attorney joe patina underscored, the jurors stopped short of claiming that his client raped miss carroll, and plans to appeal. there are things that happened in this case that were beyond the judge overturning already once by the second circuit in carroll versus trump. we simply overturned it a second time. a lot to discuss. joining us now jessica in her first interview since the verdict. miss leads, thank you for joining us. what s your reaction upon hearing this verdict? i am very pleased for jean. i m very pleased for the whole situation. i m very pleased. you are brought up in former president trump s deposition which was played in front of the jury, and included some of the earlier comments that he made about you on the campaign trail.
, tonight in the eyes of a federal giardia of his peers to donald trump, the once president of the united states, is a sexual abuser. six men and three women found him liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll at a department store in the 1990s, and then defaming her about it last year on his social media site. the jury took just under three hours to reach their verdict and reward carroll approximately $5 million in damages. in a moment, we will be joined by jessica leads, testifying during the trial that a young donald trump groped her on a flight in the 70s. her lawyers neither put on defense, nor called him as a witness, leading the plaintiffs to play damaging portions of trump s testimony. they heard the access hollywood tape in which he says that stars can get away with women and heard them during the deposition, doubling down on that. historically, that s true with stars. it s true the stars that they can grab women by the ? if you look at the last million yea
be the star? i think you can say that yes. jurors also heard the former president claim missing carroll was not his type, as if that would excuse sexual assault. this photo of her back in the 1990s for his ex-wife, marlon maples. is this the photo that you are referring to? i think so, yes. i don t even know who the woman s. i don t know. it s marla. you re saying marla is in this photo? yes, that s my wife. which one are you pointing to? here. the person you just pointed to is e. jean carroll. miss carroll did not speak to reporters today, but released a statement which reads in part, this victory is not just for me but for every woman that has suffered because she was not believed. as for the former president, he posted this on his social media