It came after a Manhattan jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll.
Staffers who worked in Donald Trump’s White House have accused him of sexual harassment after a jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday.
The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in a judgement that could haunt Trump as he campaigns for a second term.
Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman store in 1996, finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. They also found Trump liable for defaming Carroll over her allegations. Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said the former president planned to appeal.
Trump lashed out at the verdict on his social media platform, Truth Social. In a post, he said he has “ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA” who Carroll is and that the verdict is “A DISGRACE” and “CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!”
Discussing the verdict on CNN, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who quit as White House communications director in December 2020, said Trump had a pattern of behaving inappropriately with women while in the White House.
