2023-05-09 23:24:54
The writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll became this Tuesday the woman who has finally made former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) pay for his sexual abuse.
Is regarding crimes for which he has been accused by numerous women over the years.
By civil means, Carroll obtained that a jury consider Trump responsible for abusing her in the changing rooms of a New York department store during the 90’s.
In addition, he was forced to pay a compensation for that episode and for, later, defame her in response to her story.
Although the verdict does not recognize the rape denounced by the writer, marks the first time in which the former US president pays before the Justice for a case of sexual abuse.
That accountability comes following more than two dozen women have accused Trump of going overboard with them. This, with complaints ranging from harassment to rape and that the New York tycoon has always denied.
In the case of E. Jean Carroll, it took decades for the matter to come to justice. The columnist was silent until 2019, when he denounced it in a memoir, at a time when Trump was already in the White House.
Then he took advantage of a “legal window” opened in New York state that temporarily allowed victims of sex crimes to report cases that were already time barred.
At 79 years old, Carroll finally achieved a verdict once morest Trump.
A process to restore the name of E. Jean Carroll
Throughout the trial, the plaintiff’s lawyers insisted at all times that she was not moving for money, but for “restore his good name”.
Especially following the former president responded to his accusations by denying the biggest and with total disdain, which prompted his libel suit.
Trump disqualified Carroll, assuring that she was not his “type”, that all that was “a joke and a lie” and that what he was looking for was free fame to promote a book.
Fame, however, was something Carroll had already enjoyed during his professional career, thanks to a successful column in the elle magazine or the show he hosted in the mid-90s.
As he told in an interview with USA Today, Already at the age of 12, he was dedicated to sending proposals for possible articles to American magazines.
A few years later, their stories appeared in prestigious publications such as Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair o Playboy, where she was the first woman named contributing editor.
His journalism was distinguished by a strong literary character, often using the first person.
On television, Carroll wrote for “Saturday Night Live” in the 80s and presented his own program “Ask E. Jean” in the 90s, the same title that had his popular space on Elle.
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