特朗普性侵女作家？被判赔偿500万美元，愤怒回应：根本不认识对方...

栏目：人物资讯时间：2023-05-12

　　据外媒报道，当地时间5月9日，美国纽约州曼哈顿的联邦陪审团裁定，前总统特朗普（Donald Trump）应对性侵和诽谤作家卡罗尔(E. Jean Carroll)负责，需向她支付总计500万美元赔偿款。

　　这是美国历史上首次有前总统因性侵而承担民事责任。

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　　特朗普性侵指控成立

　　Ms Carroll, a writer and former advice columnist for Elle magazine, was the plaintiff in a pair of civil lawsuits against former president Donald Trump.

　　卡罗尔女士是《Elle》杂志的作家和前咨询专栏作家，是针对前总统唐纳德·特朗普的一对民事诉讼案的原告。

　　One of those lawsuits was presented in a New York City federal courtroom under the supervision of US District Judge Lewis Kaplan. The proceedings began on 25 April, with closing arguments beginning on 8 May.

　　其中一起诉讼是在美国地区法官刘易斯·卡普兰的监督下在纽约市联邦法庭上提起的。诉讼程序于4月25日开始，结束辩论于5月8日。

　　On 9 May, the jury in the civil case returned a verdict that Mr Trump was liable for sexually abusing Ms Carroll, but not raping her, and awarded the writer a total of $5m in damages, which includes a defamation claim.

　　5月9日，这起民事案件的陪审团作出裁决，认为特朗普对性虐待卡罗尔负有责任，但没有认定特朗普犯有强奸罪，并判给卡罗尔总计500万美元的赔偿金，其中包括诽谤索赔。

　　Part.

　　卡罗尔：这场胜利属于女性

　　The allegations against Mr Trump were first laid out in an excerpt from her book What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, that ran in New York magazine in June 2019.

　　卡罗尔对特朗普的指控，最初出现在她的新书《我们需要男人做什么？一个谦虚的提议》，2019年6月该文章刊登在《纽约》杂志上。

　　At the time, Ms Carroll said the emergence of the #MeToo movement in late 2017 motivated her to tell her story publicly.

　　当时，卡罗尔表示，2017年末MeToo运动的出现，促使她公开讲述自己的故事。

　　Mr Trump addressed the allegations days later when pressed on them by reporters at the White House.He claimed he had “never met her” and denied raping her by telling the White House press corps that Ms Carrol was “not [his] type”.

　　几天后，特朗普先生在白宫接受记者的采访时谈到了这些指控。他声称自己“从未见过她”，并否认强奸了她，他告诉白宫记者团，卡罗尔“不是他喜欢的类型”。

　　He also accused her of lying to boost sales of her memoir.“She is trying to sell a new book – that should indicate her motivation,” the then-president said, adding that her book “should be sold in the fiction section”.

　　他还指责她为了提高回忆录的销量而撒谎。时任总统的特朗普表示： “她正试图推销她的新书——这就是她的动机”，并补充称，她的书“应该放在小说区出售”。

　　Ms Carroll pushed back on his claims, sharing a photo of herself and Mr Trump together with his then-wife Ivana Trump and her then-husband John Johnson at an NBC party in 1987 to show they had met.

　　卡罗尔女士驳斥了他的说法，她分享了一张她和特朗普以及他当时的妻子伊万娜 · 特朗普和她当时的丈夫约翰 · 约翰逊在1987年的 NBC 派对上的照片，以表明他们见过面。

　　In her 2019 defamation suit against Mr Trump, she alleged his denials had caused her “to suffer reputational, emotional, and professional harm” and said she was suing “to obtain redress for those injuries and to demonstrate that even a man as powerful as Trump can be held accountable under the rule of law”.

　　在2019年针对特朗普的诽谤诉讼中，她称特朗普的否认让她“遭受了名誉、情感和职业上的伤害”，并表示她正在起诉“以获得对这些伤害的赔偿，并证明即使是像特朗普这样有权有势的人也逃不开法律的制裁”。

　　Last year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Adult Survivors Act, which created a one-year suspension of statutes of limitations for rape and other civil claims arising from allegations of sexual misconduct.

　　去年，纽约州州长凯西·霍赫尔签署了《成人幸存者法案》，该法案规定，因不当性行为指控而引发的强奸和其他民事诉讼有一年的回溯期。

　　The law allows sexual assault survivors to sue their attackers regardless of when the alleged assault may have taken place.

　　法律允许性侵犯幸存者起诉性侵者，无论所指控的性侵犯何时发生。

　　In November 2022, shortly after the bill signing, Ms Carroll filed a second lawsuit against Mr Trump for rape.

　　2022年11月，法案签署后不久，卡罗尔以强奸罪对特朗普先生提起第二次诉讼。

　　The new case accused him of battery – and also added a new defamation claim based on recent posts in which he called her a “con job”.

　　在新的诉讼中，卡尔罗指控特朗普殴打，并根据他最近称她为“骗子”的发言，增加了一项新的诽谤指控。

　　最终经过5年的努力，卡罗尔终于获得了胜利。她在胜诉后这样说道：

　　"Today, the world finally knows the truth," Ms Carroll said in a written statement following the verdict. "This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed."

　　“今天，世界终于知道了真相，”卡罗尔在判决后的一份书面声明中表示。“这场胜利不仅属于我，也属于每一位因为不被相信而遭受痛苦的女性。”

　　Part.

　　特朗普回应：裁决是耻辱

　　After the verdict, Mr Trump, 76, posted on his social media platform Truth Social in all capital letters: "I have absolutely no idea who this woman is.

　　判决后，76岁的特朗普先生在他的社交媒体平台 Truth Social 上用大写字母写道: “我完全不知道这个女人是谁。

　　"This verdict is a disgrace - a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!"

　　“这一裁决是耻辱——是有史以来最大的政治迫害的延续！”