“A strong win for E Jean,” writes Bette Midler.
Bette Midler attends the WSJ Journal 2019 Innovator Awards at MOMA on November 6, 2019 in New York Metropolis.
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Donald Trump was convicted Tuesday (Could 9) of sexually assaulting and defaming author E. Jean Carroll and everybody from Bette Midler to Jamie Lee Curtis and Stormy Daniels took to social media to react to the information.
With the court docket’s determination, Trump turns into the primary former president in U.S. historical past to be convicted of sexual abuse. Because of the civil case, the Republican Social gathering figurehead was ordered to pay $5 million in damages to Carroll, who testified that he assaulted her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman within the mid-’90s.
The court docket loss provides to his mounting authorized issues, which additionally embrace 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data stemming from the hush cash funds he made to Stormy Daniels forward of the 2016 election, in addition to investigations concerning election fraud in Georgia, the categorized paperwork present in a storage closet at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida and extra.
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