For the first time ever,
a former president has been found by a jury to be a sexual predator.
Donald Trump found to have sexually abused advice columnist E Jean Carroll
in a New York City department store changing room 27 years ago.
And we've got all the details for you.
This is the first time, again, that a former president of the United States has
been legally branded a sexual predator.
Now, it is, though, a civil, not a criminal case, and so
the only legal sanction Trump will face is financial.
Now, technically, when you say that, what you mean is that he can't spend time
behind bars, he can just pay a financial penalty.
But it's also true in a larger political sense in that it appears at this point
that the only consequences he will really suffer from are financial and
not, I don't know to his reputation.
Which is in the gutter anyway, and that's why they like him to his
chances of becoming a nominee, but we'll get to all that.
But first, in explaining a finding of sexual abuse to the jury,
here is how the judge explained it as two elements, that Trump subjected
E Jean Carroll to sexual contact without consent, by use of force.
Which that sounds like the definition of rape to me, but I'm not a lawyer.
And that it was for the purpose of sexual gratification.
The jury deliberated for less than three hours,
it did not find that Trump raped Carroll, but did find him liable for sexual abuse.
Which I'll leave it to the linguists and
the philosophers to untie all of that, but one sounds like the other.
Anyway, here is the penalty that he will suffer as a result of this.
They decided that Ms. Carroll proved by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr.
Trump sexually abused her and that she was injured as a result of his conduct.
The jury decided that $2 million would fairly inadequately compensate her for
her injuries.
The jury also decided that Mr. Trump should pay Ms.
Carroll $20,000 in putative damages, but that is just the beginning.
They also found that Mr. Trump defamed Ms. Carol and
that she was injured as a result of his October 2022 true social post about her.
She'll be paid $1 million for damages unrelated to a reputation repair program.
$1.7 million for a reputation repair program only.
They also found that Mr. Trump, quote, acted maliciously out of hatred, ill will,
spite or wanton reckless, or willful disregard of the rights of another.
Which could honestly define literally any action he's taken in his life, but
specifically here towards Miss Carroll, and she should be paid $280,000 for that.
So, look, I suppose with America being what it is,
this is what they were able to get for E Jean Carroll.
This is what sort of cosmically they were able to get for
the dozens of other women that have accused Trump of sexual harassment and
sexual assault of a variety of different types, and let's keep it real.
More likely, many additional women who have not wanted to put
themselves through the psychic wringer of talking about their experience,
being attacked for the rest of their life.
Having their family members be doxed and stalked and all of that.
And so this is at least a recognition that has never been found against any other
president or formal president of what he did and why he did it.
And so, Jr with all that said, what do you think?
>> Well, as you said, I mean, historic type of look here, but this has been
talked about for years and it's not just the E Jean Carroll situation.
It's, as we found out, also there's other women that were coming forward in the past
about the sexual assault accusations they had towards him.
And many of them were then saying, this is just one of those quick shots of at least
seeing yo, there's a jury that believed a woman.
And isn't that depressing in this country?
That we had women who are claiming sexual assault on a very powerful person who end
up running for president and winning.
Who then have to say, my God, my country, my judicial system that we've trusted,
and it says the best in the world actually acknowledged someone based off
of how much evidence was placed in front of them.
There's something, even if it's a liability case on civil suits and
not the criminal side of it, but it's something.
And it's depressing that now we have to be the ones to say, my God,
can you believe we did such a thing?
And the response being, this is just something that's so political.
Hey, it's only political because you decided to run for office after, again,
according to this jury, you were found liable for these types of crimes.
So don't blame this on anyone else except for yourself bro.
>> Yeah, and blame, perhaps, his legal strategy of not showing up,
of just attacking her on social media,
of attacking the physical appearance of the woman serving as her lawyer.
He was gross, maybe don't go around talking to Billy Bush about how you like
to do this exact sort of sexual assault and how it's just awesome when you do it.
Maybe don't do any of those things.
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