83.3 million dollars (76.7 million euros)! This is the amount that Donald Trump, against the background of sexual assault in the 1990s, e. Jean Carroll was ordered to pay for defamation. So a Manhattan civil jury delivered its verdict late in the afternoon on Friday, January 26.
In detail, they approved the prosecutor, a former magazine columnist She 80 now, after receiving $18.3 million in damages plus an additional $65 million in “punitive” damages that Trump said in a June 21, 2019 statement. “Acted out of malice, malice, ill will or malice, revenge or willful disregard of their rightsme Carol.”
Donald Trump left the Manhattan court before the verdict was handed down but was quick to respond on his Truth social network: “Absolutely ridiculous! I completely disagree and will appeal this entire Biden-led witch hunt centered on me and the Republican Party. Our legal system is out of control and is being used as a political weapon. They took away all First Amendment rights (of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression). This is not America! »
This is the second time that Donald Trump has been indicted in this case. In May 2023, a jury convicted him of sexual assault — not rape — of Ms.me Carol in 1996 and for defaming her in 2022. Since the trial was civil, the burden of proof was light and a prison sentence was not possible.
In a book published in 2019, E. Jean Carroll explained that she had been spotted in the fitting room of the New York store Bergdorf-Goodman, V.E Avenue, in Manhattan. She said Donald Trump encouraged her to wear lingerie. Once they entered the lodge, according to Mme Carol, he pushed her against the wall, kissed her on the lips, then pulled down her tights, unzipped her pants and forced her. “Fingers around my private parts pushing his penis half – or completely, I’m not sure – inside me”. Donald Trump, who was the President of the United States at the time of the book’s release, then Mme Carol calls her a liar and suggests that it is impossible to have sex with her because she is not “No (s)We write ». like thisme Carroll then decided to attack her in 2022 for rape and defamation.
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