Four months after a civil trial jury found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the ex-president is liable for comments he made to deny he sexually assaulted her.
The decision, marking another victory for Carroll, means jurors in an upcoming second trial will only have to decide how much the former U.S. president should pay in damages.
The ruling stands to streamline significantly the second trial, set for January. It concerns remarks that Trump made in 2019, after Carroll first publicly claimed that he sexually attacked her in a dressing room after a chance meeting at a luxury
