This astronomical amount breaks down to $65 million in damages, $11 million in reputational damages, and $7.3 million in financial compensation.
Amid allegations of rape in the 1990s, former US President Donald Trump was indicted on Friday by a New York civil court, author E. Jean Carroll was ordered to pay $83.3 million for defamation.
The former President of the United States, campaigning for re-election, immediately took to his social network to express outrage. Truth Social A “ridiculous” conviction and promised to appeal.
The heavy favorite in the Republican primaries and likely challenger to Joe Biden in the November presidential election once again denounced the “Biden-led witch hunt against (him) and the Republican Party.”
This astronomical sum determined by a popular jury of Civil Trial Former journalist E. Filed by Jean Carroll, 80 Donald TrumpThe 77-year-old, is divided into 65 million dollars in damages, 11 million dollars in compensation for reputational damage and 7.3 million in financial compensation, reports the American media present in the court hearing room, including the New York Times and CNN.
The former president has been indicted in a second indictment
The judges recognized the intent to “harm” Donald Trump, which had already been ruled out by a judge in E. Jean was found liable for defamatory remarks against Carroll, who sought at least $10 million in damages for moral and professional damages.
Elizabeth Jean Carroll is a former columnist for the American edition of Elle magazine who accused Donald Trump of raping her in the fitting room of a New York department store in 1996.
Based on a second civil complaint in 2022 for rape and defamation, she was held liable in a civil action last May for sexual assault 28 years ago and defamatory comments made in 2022.
Donald Trump was then ordered to pay five million dollars in restitution. The total amount he will pay after the 2023 and 2024 trials is more than $88 million.
Donald Trump left the courtroom before returning
This second trial, for defamation only, stems from the first civil complaint in 2019 and began on January 16, in an electric atmosphere, in the presence of a former White House tenant.
According to an AFP reporter, closing arguments had barely begun on Friday when the rowdy businessman suddenly got up from his chair and jumped out of the courtroom. Elizabeth Jean Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said recently that the former president of the United States “continued throughout the trial to discredit” her client. Donald Trump, however, returned to the courtroom.
“The man who sexually assaulted (Ms. Carroll) does what he wants: he lies, he defames,” the lawyer grumbled, adding that the septuagenarian “continues to hurt her on his powerful platform.” Truth Social and its millions of subscribers.
E. Twenty messages incriminating Jean Carroll
In fact, the tycoon was once again on Friday. Jean posted about twenty messages accusing Carroll of putting together a “Monica Lewinsky-like bogus story”—named after the White House intern scandal that nearly toppled President Bill Clinton. In the late 1990s – and to “raise” money.
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 only indicated with a “yes” that he had made the comments targeted by the first complaint in 2019 against the rape allegations, which E. The book was first publicly launched by Jean Carroll.
“She said something that I thought was wrong,” Donald Trump said.
“he is sick”
But again on Wednesday evening, he e. 37 launched attacks on Truth Social against Gene Carroll, whom he continues to defame and insult by calling him “crazy”, with a “phony story” that he has “never seen (in his life).
“He’s sick,” he repeated during the procedure.
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.
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