E. Jean Carroll has broken her silence after the man found responsible for sexually assaulting her became the first convicted criminal win a presidential election.

"I tried to tell you," wrote Carroll in a heartbreaking article on X on November 6 after Donald Trump was elected president for the second time, prompting many supporters to offer their condolences to her as she faces another presidential term with her attacker in power.

“I’m so sorry, E. Jean, America has failed you!” wrote one supporter. “I am so sorry that your fellow Americans chose a rapist over their wives, sisters and daughters,” another added.

Carroll, who campaigned tirelessly against Trump, is due more than $83 million in damages from the president-elect after a 2023 federal jury found him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her by denying her allegations.

On November 3, Carroll shared a photo of herself in a polling station with the caption: “I voted for the candidate who does not attack women”.

Although Trump was found responsible for sexual assault and not rape, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the trial, said that Carroll had proven that Trump had “raped” Carroll in the ordinary sense of the term, but not in the within the narrow definition of New York law. of rape.

“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of New York criminal law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump was a “raped,” as many people generally understand the word “rape.” ” Kaplan wrote in an opinion memorandum after the decision, according to Business Insider.

“Indeed, as the evidence presented at trial below makes clear, the jury concluded that that is exactly what Mr. Trump did. »

Carroll first alleged that Trump forcibly raped her in late 1995 or early 1996, in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York, where she had encountered him, in June 2019. new York journal article. In November of that year, she filed a defamation suit after Trump accused her of lying about the allegation.

Due to Trump’s separate conviction on 34 counts related to his attempts to bury evidence of an illegal plot to influence the 2016 election, he is now the first convicted felon to win a presidential election.

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