McConnell Says He Has No ‘Observations’ About Trump’s Sexual Abuse Verdict: Will ‘Be Settled In The Primaries’

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CNN’s Manu Raju pressed Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday for a response to former President Donald Trump being found liable on Tuesday for sexual abuse.

“Do you accept as legit the verdict in New York discovering that Donald Trump is liable for sexual abuse and defamation?” Raju asked McConnell throughout a press convention on Capitol Hill.

“Appear, that’s about presidential politics and it’ll all be settled in the primaries subsequent yr,” McConnell answered.

“But the verdict itself, the deserves of the decision?” pressed Raju.

“It’s all, I don’t have any observations about it. The American people are going to must make a decision, specifically Republicans and Democrats, who they want to run for president,” McConnell concluded on the subject.

In 2019, E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room inside the 1990s. Trump fast denied the allegations and launched brutal assaults on Carroll, over which she sued him for defamation. Carroll also filed a civil swimsuit against the former president accusing him of rape. On Tuesday a jury discovered Trump chargeable for sexual abuse, now not rape, and awarded Carroll 5 million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages.

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