Former President Donald Trump has been found liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

The Manhattan federal jury of six men and three women held Mr Trump liable for defaming Ms Carroll when he posted a statement on his Truth Social website in October, calling her case “a complete con job” and “a hoax and a lie.”

The jury determined that Carroll had proven Mr Trump sexually abused her, but they rejected the accusation that she had been raped.

“It appeared that he took a frivolous attitude about it and assumed it might just roll off him. It did not and he will appeal it,” US reporter Harley Carnes told Ben.

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