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.
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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