Democrats Cheer Decision Against Trump in Civil Suit Brought by E. Jean Carroll

Democrats celebrated on May 9 a jury in New York ruling against former President Donald Trump in a federal civil case brought against him by writer E. Jean Carroll from an alleged sexual assault against her in a New York department store.
The jury awarded Carroll $5 million: $2 million in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages in the battery claim, and $2.7 million in compensatory damages, and $280,000 in punitive damages in the defamation claim.
Although the finding of sexual abuse was enough to establish his liability for battery, the jury did not find that Trump raped Carroll, who made the allegations against him stemming from a spring 1996 encounter at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan….}