Donald Trump was granted $83.3 million in a defamation case by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, and the former president has promised to file an appeal once more.
A New York jury on Friday ruled that former US President and presidential candidate Donald Trump must pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he was deemed to have molested and sexually abused.
The federal court let out an audible gasp when they saw the civil order, which is significantly more than the more than $10 million in damages Carroll had sought for defamation.
Trump reacted quickly, labeling the decision “ridiculous” in a statement and pledging to file an appeal. After a little less than three hours of deliberation, the jury made their verdict.
Trump had already been in court, leaving abruptly at one point only to return for the final arguments. When a court clerk gave out the amount of compensatory and punitive damages, he was not present in court.
Alina Habba, Trump’s attorney, just said thank you to the court officials after the verdict. The judge urged the nine men and women to respect their privacy, and as they exited the courtroom, a jury grinned at Carroll.
What was Trump Accused For defamation?
In a passage from her book ‘What Do We Need Men For?’, Carroll accused Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s in a Manhattan dressing room of a posh department shop. New York magazine released A Modest Proposal in June 2019.
Using his Truth Social platform, Trump who was convicted guilty by a jury in a different federal civil lawsuit in New York for sexually assaulting Carroll sent out a barrage of derogatory tweets criticizing Carroll, the trial, and the judge, referring to her as “an extremely abusive individual.”
Carroll was referred to by Trump as a liar, a political operation, and a nobody, and he rejected the accusation. In addition, despite a picture of them together at a party in 1987, he said that she wasn’t his type and that he had never met her.
The case surrounding E Jean Carroll
In November 2019, Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, alleging that he damaged her reputation and harmed her career. In January 2022, she filed a second complaint in which she claimed that upon his departure from office, Trump had once more sexually abused her and defamed her.
First, a jury in the sexual assault case found Trump guilty and mandated that he pay Carroll $5 million in damages in June 2022. Lewis Kaplan, the court in both instances, said that the jury’s decision in the first trial would be recognized as fact in the second trial, prohibiting Trump from refuting Carroll’s allegation of rape.
In the second trial, the main issues were how much Carroll’s reputation had suffered as a result of Trump’s defamatory remarks and how much money would stop him from making such claims in the future.
“I’m here because Donald Trump assaulted me, and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened,” Carroll said on the stand.
Trump mocked the judgment
At the second trial, Trump who had not shown up for the first appeared in court, but his behavior was unpredictable and disruptive. He yelled at the court and the attorneys repeatedly disrupted the proceedings and uploaded offensive content on his social networking platform, Truth Social.
Trump criticized the jury’s decision as “absolutely ridiculous” and pledged to appeal when it was revealed.
“Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon. They have taken away all First Amendment Rights. THIS IS NOT AMERICA!”
Carroll subsequently expressed her gratitude and “overjoyed Ness” for the jury’s verdict, saying she hoped it would encourage other victims of sexual assault to come forward and demand justice.
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