Trump’s attacks on E. Jean Carroll perpetuate rape culture, advocates say
drew laughter and applause
It was the latest denial of the decades-old incident by Trump, who filed an appeal Thursday of the jury’s decision and the $5 million in damages awarded to Carroll. But advocates for “What that says to survivors who are thinking about reporting, what that says to other survivors who have reported … is that what they’re experiencing is trivial.”
Her defamation case concerned an October 2022 post on Truth Social in which he called her allegations a “complete con job” and “a hoax and a lie.”The nine-person jury concluded after less than three hours of deliberations that Carroll had failed to prove it was more likely than not that Trump had raped her. But jurors did find Trump liable for a lesser degree of sexual abuse, and that the social media post was defamatory.Trump did not testify and his legal team did not mount a defence.
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