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Tristan Kirk and Josh Salisbury

‘The world finally knows the truth’: Writer E Jean Carroll hails sexual abuse verdict against Donald Trump

A woman found by a jury to have been sexually abused by Donald Trump has declared “the world finally knows the truth” after the former US President was told to pay $5 million in damages and left counting the political cost of his legal defeat.

E Jean Carroll, 79, sued Mr Trump over an encounter in the mid 1990s at the luxury Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman, and also accused him of defamation for branding her allegations an “complete con job,” “a hoax” and “a lie.”

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