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Top 5 moments of E. Jean Carroll's defamation, battery case against Trump

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Here's a look at the top five most consequential moments in writer E. Jean Carroll's civil defamation and battery case against former President Trump. A jury on Tuesday found former President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in a lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll that claimed Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s then defamed her when he denied the claim in 2022. Jury members found that Trump did not rape Carroll but sexually abused her, and awarded her a total of $5 million. "I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS," Trump posted to his Truth Social platform following the verdict. "THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE - A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!" MORE: Trump liable for battery, defamation in E. Jean Carroll suit Here are the top five most consequential moments from the trial. 'Trump raped me,' Carroll says Carroll told jury members that she and Trump were laughin...