{"id":93632,"date":"2024-01-27T00:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/donald-trump-must-pay-e-jean-carroll-83-3m-in-defamation-case-us-news\/"},"modified":"2024-01-27T00:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:24:05","slug":"donald-trump-must-pay-e-jean-carroll-83-3m-in-defamation-case-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/donald-trump-must-pay-e-jean-carroll-83-3m-in-defamation-case-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump must pay E Jean Carroll $83.3m in defamation case | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $83.3m (\u00a365.5m) in a defamation case to a woman who accused him of sexual assault – with the former US president saying her allegation was a lie.<\/p>\n

The court said Trump should pay $18.3m (\u00a314.4m) in compensation and $65m (\u00a351m) in punitive damages to E Jean Carroll.<\/p>\n

Ms Carroll smiled as the verdict was read. Trump had already left the building in his motorcade.<\/p>\n

Trump posted from his Truth Social account after the jury’s decision: “Absolutely ridiculous! I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

“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!”<\/p>\n

Jurors heard closing arguments in the case earlier on Friday, with Ms Carroll’s lawyer telling them that Trump should pay “dearly” for defaming her.<\/p>\n

A separate jury ordered Trump<\/strong> to pay Ms Carroll $5m (\u00a33.9m) last year after finding him liable of sexually abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York in the mid-1990s. They also found him liable of defaming her after she wrote about the incident.<\/p>\n

The trial that ended today focused only on what damages the former US president would have to pay for defaming her.<\/p>\n

The amount is considerably more than the $10m (\u00a37.9m) Ms Carroll had been seeking.<\/p>\n

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The former Elle magazine advice columnist accused Trump of destroying her reputation as a trustworthy journalist by accusing her of lying about her rape allegation.<\/p>\n

The 80-year-old said Trump’s comments caused her to be subjected to years of continuous attacks, including death threats.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for the former president argued Ms Carroll did not deserve any money, claiming she enjoyed the attention and suffered neither professional nor emotional harm after Trump branded her a liar.<\/p>\n

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No sign Trump will be deterred – even by this huge sum<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

Make no mistake this is a staggering amount of money. <\/p>\n

The breakdown of the whopping $83.3m was detailed in the jury’s verdict form. <\/p>\n

E Jean Carroll has been awarded $7.3m in compensatory damages “outside of the reputation repair program” and $11m in compensatory damages for a “reputation repair program only”.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the $83.3m comes from the jury’s conclusion that, in defaming her, Mr Trump acted “maliciously, out of hatred, ill will, spite, vindictively, in wonton, reckless or wilful disregard of Ms Carroll’s rights”.<\/p>\n

For that, the jury, of seven men and two women, concluded he must pay her $65m in punitive damages.\n<\/p>\n

The total represents more than eight times the figure Ms Carroll had asked for in her initial lawsuit.<\/p>\n

As part of the original civil case last May, in which Mr Trump was found liable for the sexual assault of Ms Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, a jury awarded her $5m in damages.\n<\/p>\n

The huge sum is an attempt to rein the former president in. <\/p>\n

Ms Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, had told the court during proceedings that: “This case is also about punishing Donald Trump\u2026 This trial is about getting him to stop once and for all.”<\/p>\n

It was a fiery trial, with Mr Trump leaving abruptly on a number of occasions. <\/p>\n

On the last day, his lawyer, Alina Habba, tried to introduce new evidence. The judge dismissed it, adding: “Ms Habba, you are on the verge of spending some time in the lock-up, now sit down.”\n<\/p>\n

There’s no sign Donald Trump will be deterred even by this huge sum. He knows his witch-hunt claims resonate deeply with his many supporters. <\/p>\n

Across America, we have found his appeal remains strong<\/b>. And he will expect that donations for him will pour in.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Trump, 77, accused Ms Carroll of making up the encounter to boost sales of her memoir, and has maintained he had never heard of her.<\/p>\n

He also attacked Ms Carroll during the trial and on the presidential campaign trial, proclaiming her case a “witch hunt” and a “con job”.<\/p>\n

Read more:
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Trump had earlier stormed out of the courtroom<\/strong> as Ms Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan began her closing argument on Friday.<\/p>\n

Ms Kaplan told jurors they should punish Trump for persistently lying about her client.<\/p>\n

“We all have to follow the law,” Ms Kaplan said. “Donald Trump, however, acts as if these rules and laws just don’t apply to him.”<\/p>\n

Trump, who is the clear favourite to be the Republican candidate in the US election later this year<\/strong>, attended the entire trial except for opening statements, which he skipped for a presidential campaign event.<\/p>\n

He is seeking to retake the White House in the November election in a likely showdown against Democrat Joe Biden, who beat him in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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