Donald Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll
From Cornell Law School’s web site:
A party is liable when they are held legally responsible for something. Unlike in criminal cases, where a defendant could be found guilty, a defendant in a civil case risks only liability
At no point in the article you linked did the Judge say that Trump was “found guilty” of anything. Trump has no crime on his criminal record.
The judge in the article says that Trump was found to have raped Carroll, but acknowledged that there is “a legal distinction” between liability and guilt.
I’m not trying to defend Trump here, or argue that he didn’t do what he was found to have done, just pointing out that there is a difference between “found guilty of rape” and what actually happened.
From the article you linked:
From Cornell Law School’s web site:
At no point in the article you linked did the Judge say that Trump was “found guilty” of anything. Trump has no crime on his criminal record.
The judge in the article says that Trump was found to have raped Carroll, but acknowledged that there is “a legal distinction” between liability and guilt.
I’m not trying to defend Trump here, or argue that he didn’t do what he was found to have done, just pointing out that there is a difference between “found guilty of rape” and what actually happened.