Trump loses sexual abuse lawsuit

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🗓️ 10 May 2023

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A New York jury awarded $5 million to journalist E. Jean Carroll, whose civil suit against the former president alleged sexual battery and defamation. Vox’s Constance Grady explains. This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn and Amina Al-Sadi, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What happened yesterday is one five foot two little blonde, wily female attorney, and
0:08.6	one seventy nine year old five five foot nine seventy nine year old advice columnist.
0:17.0	The Donald Trump Inc.
0:19.7	True facts.
0:20.7	Former president and current 2024 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump was found liable yesterday
0:25.2	for sexual abuse and defamation and ordered to pay five million dollars to the woman
0:30.7	who accused him of both.
0:33.1	Some of Donald Trump's defenders responded that he was found liable for sexual abuse,
0:37.2	but not for rape.
0:39.1	But E. Jean Carroll's lawyer suggested that may be a distinction rather than a difference.
0:44.4	So New York law in this area is complicated and I'm not going to take the time to your
0:48.3	listeners to try to explain it.
0:50.1	We are though, that's our job.
0:51.8	On today, explained how a me to era law took a 30 year old incident from allegation to
0:57.1	verdict.
1:12.0	It's today explained from Vox Constance.
1:13.9	Grady is a correspondent for Vox.com.
1:16.6	He's been writing about E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit, which starts with an account of an
1:21.0	assault here.
1:22.4	According to E. Jean Carroll, Trump attacked her in the dressing room of a Berkdorf Goodman
1:28.3	department store in New York City, somewhere between 1994 and 96.
1:32.7	I was coming out and he was coming in.
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