Victory was sweet while it lasted, but it took little more than 24 hours for Donald Trump to turn E Jean Carroll’s triumph into dust. On Tuesday 9 May the former Elle magazine agony aunt scored a notable victory over the former president of the United States when a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing her in the changing room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s and defaming her as a liar who wasn’t his “type”.
Leaving court with a $5m verdict in her favour, she shook hands cordially with Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, and told him, “He did it – and you know it.” Well played, E Jean.