Donald Trump ordered the author to pay $83 million for defamation

Former US President Donald Trump was ordered by a New York civil court on Friday, January 27, to pay $83.3 million to author Elizabeth Jean Carroll for defamation amid allegations of rape in the 1990s.

The former President of the United States, campaigning for re-election, immediately condemned on his social network Truth Social “ridiculous” And promised to appeal. The heavy favorite in the Republican primaries and likely opponent of Joe Biden in the November presidential election has once again condemned. “A witch hunt led by Biden (him) and the Republican Party.

This astronomical sum of more than $83 million, awarded by a popular jury, includes $65 million in damages and interest. “punitive”. The judges recognized the intention of the no “damage” Donald Trump, 77, was already found liable by a judge for defamatory remarks against 80-year-old Elizabeth Jean Carroll, who claimed at least $10 million in damages for moral and professional damages. The latter is a former columnist for the American edition of the magazine she, who accused Donald Trump of raping her in the fitting room of a New York department store in 1996.

Electric atmosphere

Based on another civil complaint in 2022 for rape and defamation, she held him liable last May for sexual assault 28 years ago and defamatory comments made in 2022. Donald Trump was then ordered to pay 50 lakhs. Dollars in compensation. The total amount he will pay after the 2023 and 2024 trials is more than $88 million.

This second trial, only for defamation, stems from the first civil complaint in 2019 and begins on January 16, in an electric atmosphere, in the presence of a former tenant of the White House, who dreams of returning. Closing arguments had barely begun when the flamboyant businessman suddenly rose from his chair and stormed out of the courtroom on Friday. However, Donald Trump returned to the courtroom.

“The Story of a False Monica Lewinsky”

Elizabeth Jean Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, (no relation to Justice Kaplan) just said that former President of the United States “Continued throughout the trial to defame” his customer. “The man who sexually assaulted me (Ms. Carroll) He does what he wants: he lies, slanders”For whom the septuagenarian lawyer thundered “Continues to hurt him on his powerful platform”Truth Social and its millions of subscribers.

In fact, the tycoon posted about twenty messages on Friday and once again accused Elizabeth Jean Carroll. “The Story of a False Monica Lewinsky” — named after the White House intern at the center of a scandal that nearly brought down President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s — and “Search for Exclusion” money

“he is sick”

On Thursday, the former president briefly defended himself in the trial but his freedom of speech was strictly limited by the judge to avoid any verbal slips. He just hinted with that “yes” That he made comments targeted by the first complaint in 2019 against rape allegations that had just been launched, publicly for the first time, in a book by E. By Jean Carroll. “She said something I thought was wrong.”Donald Trump said.

But again on Wednesday evening, he launched 37 attacks on Truth Social against Elizabeth Jean Carroll, whom he continues to defame and insult by calling her one. “crazy”at“Bogus Story”That he has “Never seen one (her) life”. “he is sick”, he repeated during the process. Judge Caplan, who presided over the first trial last year, ordered that the second hearing deal only with Donald Trump’s defamatory comments and not with the rape accuser’s allegations.

In addition to this case, there are four pending criminal trials against the former President of the United States.