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Clinical and forensic psychologist Dr. John Paul Garrison posted a new video analyzing President Donald Trump's body language during an Oval Office event with his "Make America Healthy Again" appointees at a White House Rose Garden gathering this week.

Garrison, who goes by the nom de guerre "Dr. G" on his YouTube channel, identified Trump's unusual behavior at recent events that has the doctor scratching his head.

First, in the Oval Office, Garrison said that Trump appeared to be dozing off again as Robert Kennedy praised him. When he then opens his eyes again, Trump appears "disoriented."

"Watch this again," Garrison replays. "He's going to fall asleep many times throughout this and I know I've shown videos of him falling asleep before, but I think the fact that this is happening in the middle of the day in a bright room full of people is so, so concerning."

"You can notice his breathing is starting to change. And as you can see, he's trying to reorient himself after he wakes up," Garrison continued. "Now, as you can see, as he's getting tired again, you're noticing this side of his mouth is starting to droop down."

Garrison also noted that his analysis is "not a psychological evaluation of any kind." He said he's merely using his knowledge to speculate on what could be happening with the president's health.

"So the big question is: why is he falling asleep? Is it related to health issues?" he questioned. "Is it related to neurological issues? Is it related to medication? Because as I talked about in the last video, if he's potentially having a seizure, he could be on anti-seizure medication and that can have sedating effects. So, it's possible if he's being treated for seizures, that could result in something like this."

One past observation from Cabinet officials has been that Trump will call them at all hours of the night. Previous reports about "bizarre sleep habits" and his daughter-in-law said it could be a reason he has trouble staying awake during the day.

Garrison doesn't think that it's enough of a reason for why Trump would be falling asleep "in the middle of a meeting like this with all of the lighting, all of the reporters. That really is not an adequate explanation."

The doctor also said he's seeing a continuing pattern of repeated involuntary spasms and jerking movements. There is also some verbal slurring and confusion. He then noticed that Trump kept looking down at his right hand.

"He's not wearing a watch, by the way, I checked. You can see very clearly, later on, he is not wearing a watch," said Garrison. "Him looking at his right hand is not unique. He has been doing this repeatedly over the past few meetings. So, there's something going on. Whether it's that he's had an injection in his right hand, whether there's bruising there, he continues to look at it over and over again."

Finally, he pointed out that the more emotional Trump gets about something, the more he appears to slur his words. A female reporter asked him if he would be willing to drop a nuclear weapon on Iran.

Trump claimed, "I would never say that," and then said that he would not do it. Then he attacked the reporter for a "stupid question."

"When he starts getting more emotional, his language skills start to fall apart more. We've seen this very consistently.
When he gets agitated, when he gets angry, he has a much harder time articulating himself," Garrison observed.

In the meeting in the Rose Garden, Garrison said that Trump "doesn't seem to know where to look anymore. Part of what President Trump used to always do is he used to always actually have great eye contact."

Now, the doctor said it appears Trump is looking "all over the place" and "appear[s] confused once anybody speaks for more than a few seconds."

Garrison noticed that all of the business people are looking at Trump in the face, but the president is looking down and away.

"It's very, very peculiar behavior. There is most definitely something very, very wrong right now," he said.

Then there are the jerking motions, Garrison saw.

"The more agitated people are, the more exhausted they are, the more likely you're going to see these neurological quirks like that right there," said the doctor. "Again, I know I've pointed this out many times, but it's so important that you see how frequently this happens. Whether or not this by itself could be some sort of myoclonic seizure activity or something else. We are seeing these involuntary neurological spasms over and over again."

It’s been more than a year since Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the attorney general to make Epstein records publicly available within 30 days, subject to specified exceptions and protections for victims.

Yet so far, only about half the files have been released. Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie, California Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, and other sponsors of the act accuse the Justice Department of withholding millions of Epstein-related records and maintaining redactions they say violate the original transparency law.

Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department has complied with the law and that material withheld from public release includes only duplicate records, privileged information, statutory exceptions, and material unrelated to the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases.

Meanwhile, Trump has spent much of the last year trying to deflect attention from the Epstein files — “flooding the zone,” in Steve Bannon’s infamous words — by distracting the public with so many initiatives and outrages that the media and public can barely keep up.

Yet the potential cover-up continues to generate bipartisan political action.

Earlier this week, Massie read off more than a dozen names of people he said were “Epstein coconspirators who should be investigated and prosecuted.” They include Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew; billionaire retail mogul Les Wexner; Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global Management; Jes Staley; David Copperfield; Lapo Elkann; Tom Pritzker; Glenn Dubin; Frédéric Fekkai; Eduardo Teodorani; Ramsey Elkholy; and Lesley Groff.

(Two others on Massie’s list are no longer alive. Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent accused of helping procure girls for Epstein, died in a French jail in 2022 while awaiting trial on sexual assault charges. Daniel Siad, another modeling industry figure, was found dead near Paris in July.)

Leon Black, who was scheduled to appear before the House panel for a second round of questioning on Thursday, now refuses to appear, arguing the panel and its chair have overstepped their authority. The committee may hold him in contempt of Congress.

Massie also announced that he’s collecting the 218 House signatures required for a discharge petition to force a vote on H.R. 9694 — the Epstein Files Transparency Act II — which Massie introduced in July along with California’s Khanna and Democratic Representative Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico. Democratic Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico have introduced companion legislation in the Senate.

Under the proposed legislation, survivors, state attorneys general, district attorneys, other authorized state officials and members of Congress could sue the U.S. attorney general over records they argue were unlawfully withheld, redacted, delayed, concealed or left unpublished.

Survivors could seek full federal records concerning themselves and the harm they suffered, while identifying information about other victims would remain protected. State and local prosecutors could seek unredacted records needed for criminal investigations or court proceedings, including qualifying classified material under secure procedures.

Members of Congress could request full, unredacted access to covered records. The attorney general would have seven days to comply with a written request, and lawmakers could challenge the department in court if it failed to meet the law’s requirements.

The bill would also limit the Justice Department’s ability to rely on certain legal privileges to withhold records covered by the disclosure law.

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As much as Trump would prefer that questions hanging over Jeffrey Epstein go away, they won’t. Whenever the American public senses a cover-up, it demands to know more. As you recall from Nixon’s Watergate scandal, it’s not just the crime, it’s the cover-up that keeps the public enthralled.

Presumably most worrisome for Trump is that the demand to know what’s being covered up about Epstein continues to bubble up from Trump’s own base. And it seems as if there’s nothing Trump can do to permanently deflect attention from it.

Robert Reich is a professor of public policy at Berkeley and former secretary of labor. His writings can be found at https://robertreich.substack.com/.

Since returning to the White House roughly 19 and one-half months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump has found a variety of ways to alienate the United States' closest allies — from steep tariffs to the Iran war to threatening to take Greenland by force. And according to liberal economist Paul Krugman, some of those allies are taking steps that prove the United States "is no longer trusted."

In a Substack column posted on Friday morning, Krugman warns that fears that Trump and his allies will "seize gold" no longer seem far-fetched. And U.S. allies, according to the economist, are taking steps to protect themselves.

"'Rule of law' is not a phrase often applied to the Trump administration," Krugman argues. "And the administration has special contempt for international law. Many of Trump's tariffs have been ruled illegal under U.S. law, but more or less all of those tariffs were and are in clear violation of past agreements solemnly signed by previous U.S. presidents, including Trump himself. So, the idea that the U.S. government might devise some excuse to seize gold held in the Fed's vault is no longer far-fetched. And nations are taking precautions."

The former New York Times columnist continues, "Earlier this week, the Dutch Central Bank announced that it was shifting about $12 billion in gold from the vault in New York to the Bank of England's vault in London. This follows a move by the French Central Bank to shift an even larger sum from New York to Paris. Other countries are considering similar moves."

Krugman notes that although the "direct economic or financial impact of these actions will be minimal," the "symbolism is chilling."

"America is no longer trusted," the economist warns. "Foreign governments can no longer count on us to obey the most basic rules, like the commandment that thou shalt not steal other people's gold. And even when Trump is gone, it will take many years of honest, responsible U.S. government to restore that lost trust."

In his column, Krugman explains the relationship that central banks have to gold.

"For the most part, monetary gold — gold held as reserves by national central banks — is a lot like the stones of Yap," Krugman notes. "Central banks own trillions of dollars' worth of gold, which they sometimes sell to each other to settle international payments. But these transfers rarely involve physically moving gold across borders. A large fraction of the world's gold reserves actually sits in a vault underneath the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, although the New York Fed does move ingots between compartments when transfers take place. And why not? The sanctity of nations' ownership of gold stored in New York is guaranteed by the word of the U.S. government — a government that is utterly reliable, because it honors the role of law. Or anyway, that's the country we used to be."

President Donald Trump demanded the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool be "fixed" starting five months ago, and one Republican commentator is saying that it might be time to simply "rip" it up.

Speaking on the CNN morning panel Friday, David Avella, chairman of GOPAC, a Republican state and local political training organization and super PAC, suggested that it might make sense to eliminate the 100-year-old Reflecting Pool altogether.

Trump's investment began with a claim that it would only cost $1.5 million to $2 million to repair. That has now ballooned to $16 million with a new contract for another company that thinks it can fix the algae problem for $2.7 million. The company's CEO told NBC Washington that they intend to fix the algae problem with chemicals, which hadn't been an option in the past, since wildlife like ducks and other birds in the former marshland use the pool.

The National Park Service and D.C. District Attorney Jeanine Pirro labeled the work on the pool as "botched" after the new "American Flag Blue" liner began to peel and float.

"Famously, the president is somebody, as you just had in your last segment, [who] loves to build things, loves to put his name on things," NOTUS national political reporter Elena Schneider explained on CNN.

"And I'm sure that he is not pleased about the fact that this is going over budget and way long," she continued. "No contractor likes to do that. But nonetheless, this is part of his M.O. of what this administration has been all about."

Host Audie Cornish said that the symbol of the Reflecting Pool, to her, has become "a rake. It's stepping on a rake. It's like [an] unnecessary cell phone, and it's costing everyone money. And none of it had to happen."

Avella claimed that presidents have been "stepping on that rake" since the pool was finished in the 1920s, though it didn't get its first overhaul until 2010-2012.

"I mean, you're looking at a Reflecting Pool that was built on the Potomac River mudflat, which shifts and you get cracks, and we have been dealing with it."

"Then fix it!" said Cornish.

"So are you advocating that we get rid of the pool. That it's been such a problem—" he asked.

Cornish cut him off to say that it almost looks like Trump is halfway there.

"Maybe it's time to rip it up," he suggested. Cornish noted the "botched job," but Avella questioned whether the problem was the contractor or if the Reflecting Pool was messed up.

Avella said that there's nothing that says the contractor who messed up can't be held accountable.

CNN contributor Lulu Garcia-Navarro brought it all back to politics, noting just how obsessed Trump is with these little projects at a time when Americans are suffering under an affordability crisis. So, spending hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars for Trump's personal interests isn't playing well.

A swimming pool expert told CNN months ago that the Reflecting Pool algae issue wasn't likely to be solved because it's so large, and any bird that uses the pool as its personal toilet would simply keep reintroducing bacteria that ultimately cause algae to grow.

The Reflecting Pool was first proposed in 1902 as a means of connecting the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. It was overhauled during President Barack Obama's administration from 2010 to 2012 to allow it to draw water from the Potomac River, rather than draining the city's water supply of the 6.75 million gallons needed to fill it. The structure was also shored up using 2,000 piles driven into bedrock because the heavy granite was sinking. At that time, a circulation and filtration system designed to reduce algae blooms was installed, but the 12-inch supply and return pipes continue to leak and break.

Set for Tuesday, November 3, the 2026 midterms are less than two months away. Former CNN host Jim Acosta told MS NOW's Alicia Menendez that Republicans he's been talking to view President Donald Trump as an "albatross" who has "hung the Republican Party out to dry." But according to Politico, GOP candidates are in a bind — seeing Trump as a liability on the campaign trail but also afraid to publicly criticize or offend him.

Politico reporters Andrew Howard, Meredith Lee Hill and Erin Doherty explain, "President Donald Trump wants to be heavily involved in Republicans' midterm push. They're not all thrilled. As Trump begins to unveil his midterm campaign plans, many Republicans facing tough elections — even in areas the president carried by double digits in 2024 — are wary of tying themselves too closely to Trump as his approval rating continues to drag."

The journalists continue, "Many privately admit they're stuck in an uncomfortable spot: By running too far from Trump, Republicans risk alienating the MAGA faithful or the president himself, whose super PAC is sitting on more than $400 million they desperately need deployed to help them win key races. But if the candidates keep Trump close, they could be dragged down by the president, as the unpopular war in Iran has increased costs for Americans across the country."

Howard, Hill and Doherty report that according to three Politico sources, "top GOP pollsters" have "advised some vulnerable Republican incumbents and candidates to not talk about Trump on the campaign trail, or at least limit their direct references to the president."

Interviewed on condition of anonymity, a Republican described by the reporters as someone "involved in a competitive House GOP race in a district where Trump won by double digits" told Politico, "We've told them he cannot come. Candidly, he would not be helpful here … I do not believe they would send him without our OK. And if they did, we probably wouldn't campaign with him."

Another House Republican facing a competitive race and quoted anonymously, described conversations with GOP operatives — saying, "Some of the guidance has been, 'You're f– – if you mention him too much, and you’re also f–– if you don't stay in his good graces.' So that is the problem."

A GOP operative told Politico that Trump is more helpful in deep red states and districts than he is swing states and districts.

According to the operative, "Trump is still the most powerful turnout motivator for low-propensity Republicans or Trump Republicans, and so, I think campaigns will and should use him and his brand in targeted ways like mail, digital, or text. But I'm not going to try to bring him to town if he's underwater and it's going to hurt us with a majority of voters."

Another GOP operative argued that "running away" from Trump "is a failure" because he is so closely identified with the Republican Party.

The operative told Politico, "We can't turn around now and pretend that we don't know him. Anyone who tries to distance themselves after hugging, you just can't get away with that. All you're gonna do is piss off the MAGA lovers, who we still need to keep in the family … Every cycle people try to do that, and it looks disingenuous. At this point, Trump is baked into everything."

A new report reveals that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) snubbed disabled veterans and poor people, so he could instead pander to Republicans, right-wing media and pro-Israel groups.

"One morning in June, three paralyzed military veterans in wheelchairs from rural Pennsylvania arrived at the office of Sen. John Fetterman for a long-awaited meeting to discuss legislation that would improve their care," reported The Wall Street Journal's Will Hobson and Siobhan Hughes on Thursday. "Fetterman’s staff greeted them with bad news: The Pennsylvania Democrat had to cancel. He’d told his staff he may have eaten something bad and wasn’t feeling well, according to people familiar with the matter."

The Journal added, "Less than an hour after his staffers met with the veterans in his place, Fetterman walked into his office, showing no signs of illness. He had an appointment he didn’t want to miss, he told staff: an interview on Fox News to discuss Israel and the war in Iran."

This, said WSJ, was not the only notable Fetterman snub.

"In April 2025, veteran Pennsylvania state lawmaker Anthony Hardy Williams brought a busload of constituents to Washington from Eastwick, a poorer, flood-prone neighborhood in Philadelphia, to meet with their representatives in Congress and discuss Trump administration cuts to a grant program that had helped the area," Hobson and Hughes reported.

They continued, "Fetterman was the only one who refused to meet with them, Williams said in an interview. At one point, they saw Fetterman walking the halls and yelled, but he didn’t acknowledge them, according to Williams."

The Pennsylvania Democrat has repeatedly played footsie with Republicans, from accepting money from right-wing donors to vowing that he would not campaign against the Pennsylvania Republican who also represents his state in the Senate, Dave McCormick. He has also fixated on Israel as one of his main issues, vowing to leave the Democratic Party if it becomes "anti-Israel" and prioritizing concerns related to that nation's interests more than most other matters that come across his Senate desk.

Fetterman's pro-Israel positioning comes at a time when hate toward both Jews and Muslims is peaking in America. As The New Republic reported in July, “President Trump posted a captionless video of graduating kindergarteners on Truth Social on Monday, goading his supporters into verbally attacking little children simply for being Muslim,. The clip is from Gateway STEM Academy, a majority-Black K-8 public charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota. It shows about 21 children in caps and gowns on stage singing a song together. Most of the girls are wearing hijabs.” Similarly hate crimes toward Jews have been on the rise over the past few years.

Although Fetterman has equated criticizing Israel's government with hating all Jews or all Israelis, Brandeis University historian Jonathan Sarna told AlterNet in March that it is wrong for so many Americans to blame all Jews for the actions of Israel's government, observing that "if you wouldn't equate criticism of the President with hating America, there is no reason — and indeed it is wrong and wicked — to do so with regard to Israel.”

In his 1513 political treatise "The Prince," Italian philosopher and statesman Niccolò Machiavelli wrote that truly great leaders surround themselves with the best and brightest advisers they can find. Indeed, he famously summed up his perspective by saying that “the first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” More than four centuries later, a Republican president named Dwight Eisenhower was rumored to have privately made a similar observation, reportedly saying that "the greatest leaders are the ones smart enough to have people smarter than them around them."

By contrast, according to a journalist with multiple inside sources into President Donald Trump's White House, America's current chief executive has the different philosophy — he surrounds himself with incompetence.

"Speaking on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast, Trump biographer Michael Wolff said, 'This is not a secret,'" reported The Daily Beast's Erkki Forster on Thursday, describing a conversation between Wolff and co-host Joanna Coles. Wolff pointed to Trump's Secretary of Defense, telling Coles that “Pete Hegseth is a... blithering incompetent... yes-man, a suck-up, a man who... knows nothing, and no logic would say he would know enough to run the military-industrial complex."

He added that Hegseth's "primary qualification is that he was... a weekend television co-host. So what in the name of God would he know about running... the United States military... at a moment... in which we are in the middle of a, basically, a revolution in terms of munitions, logistics, and supply.”

Wolff concluded, “Pete Hegseth is in this job because Donald Trump is intimidated by competence. It’s not just that he doesn’t want to be bossed around by people; it’s that he can’t deal with people who know things because—for the obvious reason—because he doesn’t know things.”

This is not the first time Wolff has observed that Trump seems to actively avoid smart people. In August he observed that “he’s filled the administration of the second term with unqualified people, morons of one variety or another, because he can’t have people who are clearly smarter than he is.”

Similarly-famed entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis said earlier in September that Presidential Rule No. 1 should be "don't start a never-ending war in the Middle East. Americans have PTSD from them. Presidential Rule No. 2: it's the economy, always has been. Leadership Rule No. 1: Surround yourself with competent people who tell you uncomfortable truths – not sycophants or loyal incompetents. The sycophants will do you in every time. Never get high on your own supply.”

Status reports that it has uncovered the reason behind Fox News’ firing of veteran entertainer Maria Bartiromo, the business journalist who became a source of right-wing conspiracies.

The Rupert Murdoch-controlled network offered no explanation for her removal, but hours after her dismissal, Status believes it has the answer: Bartiromo, 58, had informed the White House about Fox’s secret instructions to not promote President Donald Trump’s election conspiracies on the air.

Status report that Fox News had instructed senior management to divert coverage of Trump’s primetime address to the nation, wherein he claimed that China had interfered in the 2020 presidential election to benefit Joe Biden. Trump also ravaged the U.S. election system without proof, but neglected to mention Russian interference favoring his own election.

The White House was apparently surprised that its chief propaganda network opted to avoid Trump’s lie-filled address, and mined Bartiromo for an explanation. And it soon dragged the reason out of her. According to Status, Bartiromo even shared the text message that relayed the network’s orders for the White House blackout.

After the network betrayal, Fox managers scrubbed Bartiromo’s presence from the network, with Fox Business Network already taking down her contributor page.

According to the statement, "Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media. In making the announcement, FOX News Media said, 'We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 and a half years and wish her all the best in her next chapter."

Controversial former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested Thursday by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office, according to two dispatchers at the Paris-Bourbon County 911, according to Louisville Public Media.

“Bevin was reportedly arrested while playing an extra on the set of a Christian film production there,” reports LPM. “The former governor had an active bench warrant against him in Jefferson County, where a judge found him in contempt of court for not turning over required financial documents to the court in his divorce and child support case.”

Mediaite reports Bevin has been mired in a dispute over child support payments. In March, Jefferson County Family Court Judge Angela Johnson found Bevin in contempt after she said he ignored her orders to furnish the court with financial records regarding his son Jonah Bevin.

In one hearing, the ex-governor had been ordered to appear in the courtroom, but instead, he joined via Zoom, claiming that he was on his way back to Kentucky after attending a funeral. Bevin did not say where he was dialing in from. That, reports Mediaite, was the second time Bevin appeared in court via Zoom after being ordered to show up in person.

“Your arrest warrant will be issued today,” Johnson told him on March 24. She later issued a written order for his arrest and sentenced him to 60 days in jail unless he posts a $500 cash bond and submits “financial records, bank statements, tax returns and all other documents that would show the receipt of income.”

LPM reports Jonah is seeking child support from his parents due to the Bevins allegedly “abandoning him in a notoriously abusive Jamaican facility” for troubled youth that was shut down while he was there.

Bevin, a Republican, was elected governor in 2015 and served one term. Despite Kentucky being a conservative state, he narrowly lost his reelection bid to current Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear in 2019. After his firing by Kentucky voters, Bevin marked his departure by handing out over 600 pardons, leading the FBI to begin asking questions about Bevin and how he made his selections for pardons.

It was unclear on Thursday why Bevin was arrested more than five months after the warrant was issued.

President Donald Trump has retained an iron grip on the Republican Party despite the more than two dozen sexual misconduct accusations against him, as well as at least one report of sexual misconduct allegedly facilitated by the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. He was even adjudicated to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.

Now it appears that at least one other Republican politician is hoping that if Trump could politically get away with his proved and alleged sexual misconduct, he too can be forgiven. Yet a prominent local columnist does not want him to pull this off.

"Maybe we all missed the fine print in State Rep. Fabián Basabe’s 2025 video promise to resign if sexual harassment allegations against him ever proved true. But almost two months after a civil jury in July appeared to do exactly that, Basabe is back to say (essentially): That didn’t count," wrote Miami New Times staffer B. Scott McLendon on Thursday.

He added, "A former legislative aide and a former intern for the Miami Beach-based politician accused him of sexual harassment, battery, and defamation (in a complaint attached below) — accusations a civil jury in Tallahassee found Basabe civilly liable for after trial and ordered him to pay $450,000 in damages. Basabe, however, argues that this verdict fails to trigger his promise to resign."

Basabe has argued that the jury's verdict against him is not proof of guilt, adding that he will appeal it.

"He is technically correct that the verdict wasn’t 'guilty,' and otherwise doesn’t precisely align with his promise to resign if the allegations were proven true," McLendon further wrote. "The problem is that civil juries don’t decide guilt or innocence, nor do they decide whether allegations are true or false."

McLendon then quoted the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which said that “the jury generally is asked to determine whether the defendant is responsible for harming the plaintiff in some way, and then to determine the amount of damages that the defendant will be required to pay.” In short, "the jury found Basabe was liable for sexual harassment, battery, and defamation against the defendants."

The writer concluded, "So was Basabe playing a semantic game from the start by offering a conditional promise he knew couldn’t happen in reality?"

In his editorial for the Miami Herald, Basabe reneged on his vow to resign.

"A recent column in this newspaper called on me to resign, citing a promise I made to my constituents when allegations of misconduct against me first surfaced," the lawmaker said. "The author, Mary Anna Mancuso, is right about one important thing: I made that promise. I said that if these allegations were ever proven true, I would resign and be held accountable. I called it a verbal contract with my community. I meant every word then, and I mean every word today."

He added, "But the legal process continues. Even the column calling for my resignation acknowledges a critical distinction: I was not found guilty. This was a civil case, brought by a former aide and a former intern. There was no criminal prosecution or conviction. A civil jury found me liable for sexual harassment, battery and defamation. I dispute that verdict, continue to deny the allegations and am challenging it through the appellate process."