(Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
- A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday.
- Trump declined to testify in person at the trial and instead was golfing in Ireland and campaigning.
- A former prosecutor told Insider, "when a party skips court, it's very hard for them to win."
Former President Donald Trump was found liable by a Manhattan jury for sexually abusing longtime Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll after refusing to testify in the two-week-long trial.
His decision not to show up and make his case before the jury may have cost him.