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1 Jury Finds Trump Liable For Sexual Abuse
A New York jury found former President Donald Trump liable yesterday for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 1996. It wasn’t a full win for the advice columnist, though…the jury rejected her claim that she was raped but found Trump responsible for sexual abuse. The jury returned its verdict after just three hours of deliberations, awarding Carroll $5 million. Jurors also found the former president liable for defaming Carroll over the allegations. Trump immediately posted about the verdict on Truth Social, saying he doesn’t know Carroll and calling the verdict “a disgrace” and “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.” Joe Tacopina, Trump’s lawyer in the case, told reporters outside the courthouse that the jury’s rejection of the rape claim while finding him liable for sexual abuse was “strange.” Both Trump and Tacopina said the verdict would be appealed. The jury’s decision came just a day before the former president is set to participate in a town hall on CNN tonight, where he’ll take questions from voters in New Hampshire starting at 7 pm.
2 No Progress Made On Debt Ceiling Talks At White House
President Joe Biden met with Congressional leaders yesterday to discuss raising the debt ceiling to avoid the government defaulting on its debts as soon as early June. According to those involved, not much progress was made in the talks. The meeting between the President, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lasted for about an hour. Speaker McCarthy told the press outside the White House that he “didn’t see any new movement.” Biden called the meeting “productive” but said he wouldn’t approve “massive” spending cuts. McConnell told reporters that the U.S. has never defaulted on the debt before and said it won’t this time. McCarthy said before the meeting that he wouldn’t consider a short-term raising of the debt ceiling to allow more time for negotiations, saying that officials should “just get this done now.” The staff of the five officials will be meeting to try to work out the beginnings of an agreement today and tomorrow; the Congressional leaders are scheduled to meet with Biden again on Friday.
3 Tucker Carlson Announced A New Show On Twitter Yesterday Afternoon
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson posted his second video on Twitter since he was fired by the network on April 24th, and he used it to let his followers know what he’s doing next. During the video, he called Twitter the last remaining platform that allows free speech, and near the end of the almost three-minute video, Carlson said that he would be launching a version of his Fox show on Twitter “soon.” There’s been no official word on the status of Carlson’s contract with Fox News, but "Axios" reported yesterday that his lawyers had sent a letter to Fox accusing the network of fraud and breach of contract. Carlson said during the video that “The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can. But there are always limits. And you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough you will be fired for it.” He gave no indication on the timeline for his show on Twitter, ending yesterday’s video with the same sign-off he used at the end of his first video on the platform after he was fired, ”See you soon.”