Trump found liable for sexual assault

The NY Post reports:

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation — and ordered to pay more than $5 million in damages — by a federal jury in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room decades ago.

Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read in Manhattan federal court — and nodded when she heard the jury finding in favor of her defamation claim for Trump, 76, branding her a liar when she came forward with her allegations.

The nine-person jury — three women and six men — decided the case after three hours of deliberations that began just before noon Tuesday.

This is not a surprising decision. As Trump is a pathological liar, putting him on the stand would almost guarantee he would get done for perjury. And considering he boasted about how he likes to grab women etc, again it is not surprising.

It is significant to some degree that a former President and presidential candidate has been found unanimously by a jury to have sexually assaulted a women, on the balance of probabilities.

Without diminishing what Trump has done, it is worth noting that Bill Clinton almost certainly sexually assaulted multiple women also. Clinton had the full establishment defending him at the time against Juanita Broaddrick.

Will this harm Trump’s chances of winning the Republican nomination? Probably not. He has too strong a lock.

It may harm him in the general election somewhat, but too early to tell. The latest polls have him comfortably ahead of Biden, but again it is early days.

Anyway I’m pleased for Jean Carroll. The jury listened to all the evidence, and decided they believed her.