Donald Trump was found liable for defamation to former columnist E. Jean Carroll on Wednesday, and the damages trial will be January 15th next year.

Trump is still pushing through as the frontrunner for the GOP despite the amounts of indictments both civilly and criminally, attempting to keep his campaign strong. This specific case is in regards to his comments made about E. Jean Carroll on her allegation that he sexually assaulted her.

Carroll claimed that the rape happened in the mid-1990’s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York.

In May, after two-weeks of trial, he was found to have sexually abused Carroll and having defamed her by saying that he didn’t rape her, know her, and that she wasn’t his “type.” Carroll was given five-million dollars in damages as a result of the verdict. Most of Trump’s defense was that the jury didn’t find that he “raped” Carroll, but only “sexually assaulted” her.

The judge, when delivering the verdict said that the falseness of Trumps claims rely on the falseness of Jean’s claims of being raped. “The jury’s finding that she did not,” the judge says. That means that as her claims about the rape were true, so were the claims of defamation.

The judge allowed Carroll to use comments made after 2019, specifically during the CNN Town Hall, despite that being the year that the case initially started. 

Trump said that “the trial was very unfair,” and that Carroll could present “anything [she] wanted” while Trump claimed that he was “largely and wrongfully shot down by an absolutely hostile, biased, and out of control judge;” He said after the May trial in July.

Carroll is seeking ten-million dollars in damages. Trump denies any wrongdoing and has appealed the jury’s ruling and verdict against him.