Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Friday on his podcast that President-elect Donald Trump could have a “cause for reversal” in the E. Jean Carroll case, citing the language used by the presiding judge.
In May 2023, a New York jury found Trump liable for sexual battery and defamation, but stopped short of convicting him of rape in the case brought by former Elle magazine writer E. Jean Carroll. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson discussed ABC’s settlement in Trump’s defamation case against the network, following host George Stephanopoulos’ claim during a live segment of his show that Trump was “liable for rape.”
“Well George Stephanopoulos gave an interview and I think on 11 occasions he said Donald Trump committed rape. In the E. Jean Carroll civil suit, she alleged that she was sexually attacked by him. The jury found that he…
