A manhattan federal jury found trump liable on both claims earlier this week. trump s lawyers filed a notice of appeal hours after the judge endorsed the verdict and ordering trump to pay the full sum awarded to carroll. several republican congress members are distancing themselves from comments made by the former president at a town hall on wednesday. trump made a variety of false or unsubstantiated claims about the 2020 election, the riot at the u.s. capitol, abortion, the case filed against him by e. jean carroll and other matters. manu raju has more. reporter: donald trump s comments at the cnn town hall prompted a wide range of reaction including sharp criticism from members of donald trump s own party. particularly in the united states senate, them reacting to trump not calling vladimir putin a war criminal, not taking sides in the conflict between russia
Protection fit a pattern of behavior. this pattern made, precisely, what lawyer george connally had in mind when he bumped into e. jean carroll at a party, in new york, in 2019. he says, carroll mentioned she was thinking of suing trump, to which conway replied, almost instantly, quote, you have a case. joining us now is not lawyer, and columnist, george conway. george, great to have you on the show. you were there when this idea crystallized in e. jean s head that she could go to court with this. could you talk a little about why the pattern that would build a case against trump. my thinking about it had evolved. i had not thought much about all of the sexual assaults and allegations until that summer. i saw a thread online where a woman in massachusetts had put together, on twitter, all of these different allegations with all of the different women, and i
Still processing what had just happened to her. question, how did she sound? birnbach, breathless. hyper ventilating. emotional. her voice was doing all kinds of things. what did you say after miss carroll described this to you? birnbach, even though i knew my children didn t know the word, i ducked out of the room. my phone was wireless. and i said, i whispered, e. jean, he raped you. that was not the only shocking account in the worker today. another woman said trump groped her in an airplane in the 70s. he was trying to kiss me, trying to pull me towards him. he was grabbing my breasts. it was like he had 40 million hands. to carroll s lawyers, this testimony, and the testimony of other women, it speaks to the idea that trump s alleged sexual
Wireless and i said i i whispered e. jean, he raped you. that was not the only shocking account in the courtroom today. a woman named jessica leads testified trump groped her in an airplane back in the late 70s. quote, he was trying to kiss me, he was trying to pull me towards him. he was grabbing my breasts, it was like he had 40 million hands. to carroll s lawyers this testimony and the testimony of other women, it speaks to the idea that trump s alleged sexual predation fit a pattern of behavior, and that pattern is precisely what lawyer george conway had in mind when he bumped into e. jean carroll at a party in new york in 2019. he said carroll mentioned she was thinking of suing trump to which conway replied almost instantly, quote, you have a case. joining us now is that lawyer and columnist george conway. it s great to have you on the show. you were there when this idea sort of crystallized in e. jean
Judge presiding over the case, he had to intervene. today during the testimony of lisa burnbach, trump s lawyers leaned into that strategy once again. they cited her past criticism of the former president and they attempted to frame her testimony as politically motivated. she admitted to criticizing trump in the past, but she said that criticism didn t take away from what she heard from her friend, e. jean carroll, all those years ago. quote, e. jean said to me many times he pulled down my tights, he pulled down my tights almost like she couldn t believe it. she was still processing what had just happened to her. question, how did she sound? breathless, hyperventilating, emotional. her voice was doing all kinds of things. what did you say after ms. carroll described this to you? even though i knew my children didn t know the word, i ducked out of the room, my phone was