Jurors rejected Ms. Carroll’s claims that she was raped, but found Mr. Trump liable for sexual abuse and for defaming Mr. Carroll after she made her allegations public. Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, shook hands with Mr. Carroll and hugged her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan. Ms. Carroll, 79, had sought unspecified damages, plus a retraction of what she said were Mr. Trump’s defamatory denials of her claims. Mr. Tacopina told the jury in closing arguments Monday that Mr. Carroll's account is too far fetched to be believed. “They modeled their secret scheme on an episode of one of the most popular shows on television,” he said of Ms. Carroll.

Source: The Hindu May 10, 2023 14:08 UTC