Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on May 10 declined to comment on the verdict by a New York jury that found former President Donald Trump civilly liable for battery and defamation in a lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.
“That’s about presidential politics and that will all be settled in the primaries next year,” McConnell said when asked by a reporter whether the verdict was legitimate.
McConnell added, “I don’t have any observations about it, the American people are going to have to decide, particularly Republicans and Democrats who they want to run for president.”
On Tuesday, a Manhattan grand jury rejected Carroll’s allegations that she was raped by Trump in a New York City department store sometime between late 1995 and early 1996….