A smiling E. Jean Carroll leaves federal court in Manhattan after her verdict finding Donald Trump civilly liable for sexually abusing her.
A smiling E. Jean Carroll leaves federal court in Manhattan after her verdict finding Donald Trump civilly liable for sexually abusing her.
  • A federal jury in Manhattan found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.
  • The jury found Trump more likely than not abused Carroll, but they stopped short of a rape finding.
  • Carroll's own testimony offers clues to why they balked at Carroll's most serious allegation.

Magazine writer E. Jean Carroll was excruciatingly vivid, on the witness stand, in describing what former President Donald Trump did to her with his hands.

"It was a horrible feeling because he curved, he put his hand inside of me and curved his finger," she told the Manhattan federal jury on April 25, the first day of trial.