The verdict comes after a dramatic day in court that included the former president storming out of the courtroom during Carroll's closing argument.
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    Former President Donald Trump must pay writer E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in damages for repeatedly defaming her, a jury found Friday.

    Trump had already been found liable for defaming Carroll while he was president by mocking her allegation that he’d sexually abused her, so this jury was only tasked with determining how much she should be paid in damages.

    Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan asked the jury for at least $24 million in compensatory damages for the harm she suffered and “lots and lots of money” in punitive damages to stop him from continuing to defame her.

    Trump’s attorney Alina Habba contended that Carroll “had failed to show she is entitled to any damages at all” because she “actively sought the comments and the attention” she received.

    A different jury last year found Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a New York City department store in the 1990s and for defaming her by mocking her claims after he left the White House.

    U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan found Trump liable for defamation in the current case based on that jury’s findings.

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  • spider@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    over $83 million in defamation damages

    But he’s a billionaire, so no problem, right?

  • MusicHeals@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    Did anyone catch the slip during a speaking event where his attorney was in frame while he said they told the court that Mar-a-lago is worth $18M but it’s really worth $1.5B? That was a day or two before the jury determined the amount of damages award. She looked a little shocked and upset that he said that.

    How amazing is it that while he is being tried for crimes, he doesn’t even stop criming in ways that prove the prosecutors’ cases for them? Proves he doesn’t even believe his defense that he didn’t break laws, just that he’s immune because of accidentally getting elected.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
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      Mar-a-lago is worth $18M but it’s really worth $1.5B

      He already said those valuations are just how the real estate market works… and he isn’t wrong. Just like with everything, the “real worth” is whatever you manage to sell it for, but since he hasn’t sold it, he can claim whatever suits him at any moment.

      Isn’t building a society on a free market instead of the other way around, just great?