NEW YORK — A federal court jury awarded a total of $83.3 million in damages to E. Jean Carroll for defamatory comments Donald Trump made about her as president in 2019, remarks attacking her character that kicked off years of threats and harassment from the former president’s supporters. Most of the award involved $65 million in punitive damages after jurors concluded that Trump acted spitefully and wantonly toward Carroll after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. Jurors also awarded a combined $18.3 million in compensatory damages. Trump won the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire earlier this week. He also recently won the Iowa caucuses, even as he faces multiple lawsuits and four criminal indictments. In May, a civil jury in New York found that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll, and awarded her a combined $5 million in damages, a finding Trump has appealed. The former president said he will appeal the latest verdict as well.
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End of carouselJudge Lewis A. Kaplan told the anonymous jury that while they are now free to speak publicly, he didn’t advise it. “My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury and I wont say anything more about it.”
Trump was found liable for defamatory comments he made after the publication of a book excerpt in which Carroll described being raped by Trump in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. Trump called Carroll a liar and suggested a sexual encounter with her was impossible because she was “not my type.”
According to her testimony, Carroll received death threats and other alarming messages from Trump’s supporters. She testified that the harassment continues and she fears for her safety because Trump still makes disparaging comments about her on TV and in social media posts.
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End of carouselJudge Lewis A. Kaplan told the anonymous jury that while they are now free to speak publicly, he didn’t advise it. “My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury and I wont say anything more about it.”
Trump was found liable for defamatory comments he made after the publication of a book excerpt in which Carroll described being raped by Trump in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. Trump called Carroll a liar and suggested a sexual encounter with her was impossible because she was “not my type.”
According to her testimony, Carroll received death threats and other alarming messages from Trump’s supporters. She testified that the harassment continues and she fears for her safety because Trump still makes disparaging comments about her on TV and in social media posts.
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