His potential rivals, including Florida Gov. The verdict comes as the 2024 Republican presidential primary field takes shape, with Trump as the early frontrunner. “But they rejected her rape claim and she’d always claimed this was a rape case so it’s a little perplexing, but we move forward.” This was rape case all along and the jury rejected that, but made other findings,” he said. Tacopina called the verdict “strange,” emphasizing that the jury had not found Trump liable for rape. “He’s firm in his belief, as many people are, that he cannot get a fair trial in New York City based on the jury pool,” Tacopina said. Trump attorney Joe Tacopina outside the court Tuesday said that he had spoken to the former president and that he is “ready to proceed and go forward.” ![]() In videos posted to his social media platform Truth Social Tuesday evening, Trump said he plans to appeal the verdict, calling it a “disgrace” and “political witch hunt.” He also repeated his claim he did not know who Carroll was. This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed.”Ĭarroll’s lead attorney, Roberta Kaplan also released a statement saying, “No one is above the law, not even a former President of the United States.” “Today, the world finally knows the truth. “I filed this lawsuit against Donald Trump to clear my name and to get my life back,” she said in a statement. Like any defendant in a civil case, he was not required to appear in court for trial or any proceedings and has a right not to testify in his own defense.Ĭarroll called the verdict a victory for her and other victims of abuse. While the jury found that Trump sexually abused her, sufficient to hold him liable for battery, the jury did not find that Carroll proved he raped her.Ĭarroll filed the lawsuit last November under the “New York State Adult Survivors Act,” a state bill which opened a look-back window for sexual assault allegations like Carroll’s with long-expired statutes of limitation. Jury finds Donald Trump sexually abused E. "We're going to have to go back to the drawing board," she adds, "to understand why the planet is as shiny as it is.Donald Trump and E. "I certainly didn't expect the atmosphere to be so shiny. "It's great to finally see some of the secrets revealed," says Kreidberg. She called this planet the "white whale" for scientists who study planets outside our solar system, just because it's been so difficult to characterize. The new findings fascinated planet researcher Laura Kreidberg, with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, who wasn't part of this research team but who has used the Hubble Space Telescope to peer at GJ 1214b in the past. ![]() She says the James Webb Space Telescope should be looking at more planets in this size range, which will reveal whether this one is an oddball or truly representative of this class of planets. "We're pretty confident that there is water there," says Kempton, who notes that the planet is too hot for water to exist as a liquid. The telescope also saw signs that the planet's atmosphere is not hydrogen-rich, suggesting it's not just a scaled-down Neptune, and there was evidence of water vapor and methane. "That tells us something about what these clouds or hazes in the atmosphere are made of, and that's really the new big question now," she says, adding that scientists will likely start trying to create chemical hazes in the lab that have similar properties, to see what might be happening. Scientists had previously thought the clouds might be made of some kind of dark, sooty haze, she says, but that doesn't fit with all the light being reflected. "We didn't expect the planet to be so reflective, and we actually kind of expected the opposite," says Kempton.
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