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Jury finds Trump liable for battery, defamation in E. Jean Carroll case

Writer E. Jean Carroll arrives at the courthouse Tuesday for jury deliberations in her trial against former President Donald Trump.
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Writer E. Jean Carroll arrives at the courthouse Tuesday for jury deliberations in her trial against former President Donald Trump.

A federal jury has found former President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in the lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, who says he raped her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. Carroll was awarded a total of $5 million in damages.

NPR’s Andrea Bernstein joins us with the latest.

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