Trump's Bill Comes Due: A Long Overdue Reckoning for Sexual Assault Deniers The financial cost of Donald Trump's repeated denials and attempts to stall a court judgment has finally come due, but this development highlights the persistent failure to hold perpetrators accountable in our society.
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan's order to release $5. 8 million in damages to writer E. Jean Carroll is the culmination of years of legal wrangling over Trump's responsibility for defaming and sexually assaulting her.
The damage inflicted upon Carroll, who first came forward with allegations in 2019, cannot be overstated.