Donald Trump trial live updates: E. Jean Carroll says $83M court victory over ex-president is ‘for every woman who stands up when she’s been knocked down’
A Manhattan jury has determined that former president Donald Trump must pay writer E. Jean Carroll a whopping $83 mil🍸lion for defaming her — after a different civil court jury last year found ⛄him l🍸iable for that, as well as sexual abuse.
Carroll, a former longtime Elle magazine advice columnist, was initially seeking $10 million in damages.
During closing arguments on Friday, her attorney upped the ask to $24 million, telling the jury of five men and four women that the real estate magnate should pay his alleged abuse victim at least that much for defaming Carroll because “the only thing he cares about 🍷is money.”
The former commander-in-chief stormed out of the courtroom just minutes𓄧 into closing arguments♕ Friday morning, returning just over an hour later.
Trump took the❀ stand to defend himself for just three minutes on Thursday, marking the first time a jury heard directly from Trump, live in court — in any of th♓e𓆏 current cases against him — since he left the White House.
Since the case is a civil one, Trump was not required to be in court but had vowed from the outset that he intended to “go to all days” of the trial.
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What happened at the damages trial in the Trump-Carroll defamation, abuse case
- Trump blasts ‘ridicu✤lous’ $83M verdict: ꩲ‘THIS IS NOT AMERICA!’
- Ex-prez spars with judge, who roasts att𒉰orney Alina Habba for flubbin⛎g basic procedure
- Trump ‘unleashed’ followers o✱n E. Jean Carroll — with some urging that she🐓 be raped, killed: lawyer
- ‘I’d love’ to be kicked out of court, Trump taunts judge, after loudly ripping Carroll during her testimony