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Former President Donald Trump’s dismissive comments about being found liable of sexual abuse were met with applause and laughter from the live audience members during a CNN town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday. Amid his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump sat down with CNN This Morning anchor Kaitlan Collins, who asked about a civil jury finding him liable and ordering him to pay $5 million to E. Jean Carroll in a judgment announced Tuesday in a federal courtroom in New York City. Trump, who did…

Former President Donald Trump points at CNN's Jim Acosta and accuses him of "fake news" while taking questions during a news conference at the White House following midterm congressional elections in Washington, November 7, 2018.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersIt may not seem unusual for a leading presidential candidate to sit for a live interview with a major television news network.But when the candidate is former President Donald Trump — whose public remarks are frequently peppered with falsehoods — and the network is one he…

A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House. The verdict was announced in a federal courtroom in New York City on the first day of jury deliberations. Jurors rejected Carroll’s claims that she was raped, but found Trump liable for sexually abusing her. Hours earlier, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan read instructions…

Lizzo was right: Truth Hurts. Two of Donald Trump’s “Truths” on his own Truth Social platform will cost the ex-president millions, even as he avoids full liability for the alleged rape of magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. On Tuesday, A Manhattan jury declared that Trump is liable for $2 million in damages for sexually abusing and an additional $3 million for defaming Carroll through his posts on his social media network.According to reports coming out of the courtroom, the federal jury of six men and three…

A federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday after less than three hours of deliberation, delivering a quick and devastating verdict on the conduct and character of the former president.The plaintiff showed remarkable courage and credibility over the course of three days of draining testimony, especially under cross-examination. Trump attorney Joe Tacopina scored few points and lost many more in his overbearing and overlong attack on Carroll.But as much…

Over the last few months, Marvel has been revealing a whole host of new X-Men titles spinning out of the upcoming Fall of X event that promises to shake Krakoa to its core. Today the publisher announced that legendary comics writer Louise Simonson and artist Bernard Chang are launching a new Jean Grey ongoing series this August. No additional members of the creative team were announced. The first issue features a cover drawn by Amy Reeder. For those who haven’t been keeping with the X-Men comics, after seemingly dying…

This is the cover to X-Men #24 by Joshua Cassara being published in July from Marvel Comics. With the return of the Arakki mutant god Pogg Ur-Pogg.This is the cover to X-Men #24 by Joshua Cassara being published in July from Marvel Comics. With the return of the Arakki mutant god Pogg Ur-Pogg. With Cyclops, Jean Grey and Magik in his path. Is This The End For Cyclops And Jean Grey? (X-Men #24 #XSpoilers) Last month, Joshua Cassara posted to Twitter some of his process work in creating the cover, the initial sketch and…

I guess it’s possible that Republicans really don’t care about Donald Trump’s run-ins with the law.Maybe, despite the numerous allegations, investigations and charges against him — for rape, for defamation, for seeking to subvert the 2020 election, for his role in the Jan. 6 assault, for falsifying records about hush money payments — he will maintain his position as the front-running GOP candidate and once again persuade his tens of millions of zealous supporters to vote for him. It’s a stunning and depressing display of…

In the summer of 2019, the journalist E. Jean Carroll published a story that would change her life forever. It would continue the reverberation of a social movement that had already changed my life and millions of people’s all over the world. In an article for New York magazine, Carroll accused a very powerful man of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, and not just any powerful man — Donald Trump. When the accusation came out, I was driving across town through Manhattan traffic, just a few blocks…

The many legal perils amassing against former President Trump have a way of blurring together at this point. But the civil trial of the writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit for assault and defamation, which began Tuesday in New York, is about to stand out dramatically from the pack.That’s because the law, the evidence and the personalities involved portend a lopsided and relatively brief trial that will portray Trump vividly as a liar, bully and sexual predator.And we can probably add “coward” to that because Trump decided…