On May 9, 2023, a jury found former US President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, an advice columnist in 1996, awarding her $5 million
in damages. However, the jury rejected Carroll's claims that she was raped. Trump did not attend the trial and has insisted that he never sexually assaulted Carroll or even knew her. The ruling could affect Trump's campaign to regain the White House.
The verdict was announced in a federal courtroom in New York City on the first day of jury deliberations, after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan read instructions on the law to the nine-person jury. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, Wikimedia commons.