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Donald Trump: the former American president condemned but increasingly popular
Donald Trump: the former American president condemned but increasingly popular – (France info)
After a conviction for sexual assault in 2022, Donald Trump has just been ordered to pay more than $80 million for defamation against an American journalist who accused him of rape. Campaigning to be elected president again, he promised to appeal.
The dazzling smile of a woman who was vindicated by justice. American journalist Elizabeth Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of defamation. The judges ordered the former president to pay $83 million in compensation. His response was immediate on social networks. “A Biden-led witch hunt against me and the Republican Party…”he wrote.
An intact popularity
For months, he accused Elizabeth Jean Carroll of extorting money from him, insulted her “crazy” and denounced a “bogus story”. Five years ago, the author and journalist claimed in a magazine that the billionaire had raped her in a department store in Manhattan (New York, United States), in 1996. To defend himself, he assured during his testimony that it was not his “kind of woman”. A court dismissed the rape charges but admitted the sexual assault. These legal setbacks have so far not dampened the popularity of the former president who has just won the Republican primary in New Hampshire.
