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A New York Jury Says Trump Is a Sexual Abuser. Now What?
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A New York Jury Says Trump Is a Sexual Abuser. Now What?
E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan court after a jury found former president Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. (Spencer Platt via Getty Images)
E. Jean Carroll triumphed in her sexual assault case against the ex-president. But what does it mean for him—and his election prospects? Alan Dershowitz, Lara Bazelon, and others weigh in.
By Bari Weiss
05.11.23 — U.S. Politics
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Nearly thirty years ago, E. Jean Carroll, then 52, met Donald Trump, then 49, at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City. As she remembers it, she ran into Trump on her way out of the store, and he asked Carroll for help buying a gift for a woman. Carroll suggested a bag or a hat. They ended up in a dressing room together with the door closed when Trump force…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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