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He repeatedly mocked her and made disparaging remarks – now Donald Trump (77) is getting his reward: a jury in Manhattan has ordered him to pay $83.3 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll.
He had slandered her several times in speeches, social media or at press conferences.
Late that morning, Trump posted more than a dozen messages on his online network Truth Social, again accusing Carroll of making false claims to extort money. On the eve of the hearing, Trump published a volley of 37 verbal attacks on Carroll on Truth Social.
During the trial he stormed out
Trump stormed out of the courtroom during closing arguments in his defamation trial in New York. On Friday he suddenly jumped up from his chair and left the room.
The plaintiff’s lawyer, E. Jean Carroll, had just said that the former head of state continued to defame her client throughout the trial.
After a brief break following attorney Kaplan’s argument, Trump returned to the courtroom for his lawyers’ closing arguments. Why he left the room and where he initially went remained unclear.
In the civil lawsuit, columnist and author E. Jean Carroll demanded more than ten million dollars (9.1 million euros) in damages from Trump for defamatory statements.
Raped in the locker room
Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a dressing room at the luxury Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York in 1996. The longtime Elle magazine columnist first made her accusation public in 2019, when Trump was president. The Republican then accused Carroll of lying and said she wasn’t his “type.”
Last year, Trump was sentenced in an initial trial to five million dollars in damages and damages for sexual abuse and defamation of the journalist. Two weeks after the ruling, Carroll called for even harsher punishment for Trump in an updated lawsuit after he again denied Carroll’s rape allegations and insulted her as a “crazy” during a live CNN town hall discussion before an audience of millions.
Trump sexually assaulted her, lied “and he destroyed my reputation,” the columnist and author said in her testimony last week. When asked how Trump had damaged her reputation, Carroll said: “I used to be known simply as a journalist, and now I’m known as a liar, a cheat and a lunatic.” (AFP/neo)
Source: Blick
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