Right after Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary last week, he flew to New York to testify in the civil case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll. Last May, a civil court found that Trump had, in fact, raped E. Jean in a dressing room at Bergdorf’s, and not only that, Trump had defamed her repeatedly after she told her story. Back in May, E. Jean was awarded $5 million. Soon after, Trump continued to defame her in interviews and on social media. Another trial was set to extend the defamation part of E. Jean’s case. Trump was called in to testify and he succeeded at completely alienating the judge and jury, loudly muttering “con job” and “witch hunt” during the proceedings, arguing with the judge and, worse yet, continuing to attack and defame E. Jean on Truth Social (his Nazi social media). Well, it took less than three hours for the jury to reach their decision: E. Jean Carroll has been awarded $83.3 million.
Former President Donald J. Trump was ordered by a Manhattan jury on Friday to pay $83.3 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her in 2019 after she accused him of a decades-old rape, attacks he continued in social media posts, at news conferences and even in the midst of the trial itself.
Ms. Carroll’s lawyers had argued that a large award was necessary to stop Mr. Trump from continuing to attack her. After less than three hours of deliberation, the jury responded by awarding Ms. Carroll $65 million in punitive damages, finding that Mr. Trump had acted with malice. On one recent day, he made more than 40 derisive posts about Ms. Carroll on his Truth Social website.
On Friday, Mr. Trump had already left the courtroom for the day when the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, called in the nine-member jury shortly after 4:30 p.m., warning the lawyers, “We will have no outbursts.” The verdict was delivered nine minutes later to utter silence in the courtroom.
In addition to the $65 million, jurors awarded Ms. Carroll $18.3 million in compensatory damages for her suffering. Mr. Trump’s lawyers slumped in their seats as the dollar figures were read aloud. The jury was dismissed, and Ms. Carroll, 80, embraced her lawyers. Minutes later, she walked out of the courthouse arm in arm with her legal team, beaming for the cameras.
“This is a great victory for every woman who stands up when she’s been knocked down and a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down,” Ms. Carroll said in a statement, thanking her lawyers effusively.
Trump’s lawyers are already saying that they’ll appeal, which means it will be a while before E. Jean gets her money. Besides, I’m pretty sure Trump does not have that money, anywhere. It would be hilarious if the court basically gave E. Jean Carroll possession of Trump Tower or Mar-a-Lago. Come on! Jokes aside, this whole situation is pretty awful for E. Jean. Trump has targeted her so thoroughly, she’s constantly in danger from his lunatic supporters and she’s basically going to need security for the rest of her life.
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- New York, NY – E. Jean Carroll leaves Federal Court in Lower Manhattan with her legal team following the verdict that decided that former President Donald Trump must pay her $83 million in damages in her defamation case against him. Pictured: E Jean Carroll BACKGRID USA 26 JANUARY 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY – E. Jean Carroll leaves Federal Court in Lower Manhattan with her legal team following the verdict that decided that former President Donald Trump must pay her $83 million in damages in her defamation case against him. Pictured: E Jean Carroll BACKGRID USA 26 JANUARY 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- President Donald Trump arrived at Trump Tower following his testimony on the stand in the E. Jean Carroll trial. Featuring: Donald Trump Where: New York City, New York, United States When: 25 Jan 2024 Credit: TheNews2/Cover Images
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- President Donald Trump arrived at Trump Tower following his testimony on the stand in the E. Jean Carroll trial. Featuring: Donald Trump Where: New York City, New York, United States When: 25 Jan 2024 Credit: TheNews2/Cover Images
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- E Jean Carroll Exits Manhattan Federal Court Featuring: E. Jean Carroll Where: New York, New York, United States When: 25 Jan 2024 Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
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- E Jean Carroll Exits Manhattan Federal Court Featuring: E. Jean Carroll, Roberta Kaplan Where: New York, New York, United States When: 25 Jan 2024 Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
Happy dance! Happy happy dance. I love that jury for supporting her. Today I am just celebrating the win.
I saw this on a news app on my phone yesterday & whooped out loud, here alone in my apartment. Then I cackled a bit. 😁
He will have to put up the amount of the judgement in cash before he can appeal. I imagine E. Jean’s lawyer will attach liens to all his properties so he can’t sell them clandestinely and make off with the loot.
I wonder how much Alina Habba will see for all her idiotic attempts to get his court cases thrown out. My guess is, not one red cent.
Perhaps this was her audition for Fox.
According to various lawyers on Twitter and BlueSky, he has 30 days to come up with the money or her lawyers can start doing financial discovery and putting liens on his property. At some point she gets to start seizing it. Hence the Carroll Tower memes.
Carol Largo meme is hysterical
Oh, this is fantastic! I had no idea! I just thought, he’ll never pay up but with liens on his properties? Fantastic!
Habba is saying they will appeal. He has 10 days to post the entire judgement amonnt in order to do this. What I find so amusing is a good lawyer would have told him to pay the 5 million dollar tab & never mention Carroll’s name again. The funny thing about NY appeals is that you are not allowed to use real estate as collateral unless the title is clean. Trump doesn’t have anything not leveraged & I doubt he has 83.3 million he can put his hands on. The clock is ticking. I expect Carroll’s lawyer will begin attaching his holdings the second the 10 day clock runs. What a lovely start to a year which I hope brings the downfall of “The Donald”. The rumor is that Tacopina told Trump to pay the 5 mil tab & he was unable to listen to reason & that is why he removed himself as counsel leaving Trump with “I can fake smart”.She proved she is indeed unable to “fake smart” & is frankly not pretty enough to be so obtuse
She also apparently didn’t do anything to preserve issues for appeal. Something about her questioning and Joe she answered a few questions from the judge. There’s no way she knows how to file anything coherent properly.
I hope Trump puts her in charge of all his cases. He somehow got a former Supreme Court clerk (? I think, it was someone who should know better) to present his case to the appeals court for his dc criminal trial. Including arguing with a straight face he should be able to have political rivals murdered as part of the duties of being President.
Habba is a truly incompetent lawyer. she passed on every single opportunity to establish grounds for an appeal. so they don’t really have anything to argue. plus, Trump will have to escrow the money if they were to be granted one. game, set, match.
Alina’s “firm” has been paid over $2million according to accounts.
Hope she’s better as his ‘escort’ than she is as a lawyer.
I mean, as we embarrassing and incompetent as Habba’s performance was, she will have name recognition and media exposure that is valuable to her. And she was not hired for her legal mind, but her ability to be a mouthpiece for MAGA world and make a splash on Fox. Shrug.
Everyone that joins his team all think that things will be different for them, that they are finally going to be the one to use Trump instead of him using them, but they always end up the same way: at some point they all either tell him something he doesn’t want to hear, or they discover a line they won’t/can’t cross, or he simply gets tired of them, and they end up disgraced ( and likely not paid).
I think it was Allison Gill who said that MAGA really stands for “Making Attorneys Get Attorneys”.
I saw some of her ‘performance’ on the news the other day. I wondered if she was always like that or if she ramped it up in order to work for trump, or if she got that way just being in his vicinity. What vile people he surrounds himself with.
Wanting to make clear, I’m talking about trump’s lawyer here.
If he wants to appeal, he still has to put up the cash first as some kind of bond. I can’t believe he hasn’t fired Habba yet, she is so comically bad at lawyering. How long until he defames Carroll again? I’ll say a week because so far it seems like the loss is actually scaring him, but he’ll probably start trashing her again tomorrow.
If he defamed her again can she sue again?
I actually want this to happen.
I hope he’s left with nothing but his dead squirrel wig.
I’m guessing that the reason he hired her is because no one else would take the job and she’s willing to kiss her legal career goodbye to do anything he wants. I doubt she’s looking to be an atty – she wants something easier, and pretending to be a trial atty and humiliating herself is a small price I guess.
This is the woman who told the judge she needed a delay because she was sick and then was spotted at the Trump victory party.
Trump’s lawyers’ questions to E Jean Carroll were absolutely terrible, they tried to shame her for things she had written for her work it was just horrible.
This is where I’d normally insert a gif of a huge crowd getting to their feet and cheering, he he.
Interestingly, there are some lawyers on twitter (refuse to call it that other name) saying that Trump’s lawyrs were so ineffective that they haven’t set up grounds for appeal. I’m going to wait untu=l I hear from Alison Gill on the “Clean Up in Aisle 45” podcast this week to fully celebrate, but it would be great if true.
https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1751024486495699067
Thanks for the pod rec.
“Clean up in Aisle 45” is just such a great name, no?
Also thanking you for that link, I learned a lot. Good to see some sanity & logic & reason. Just followed that podcast, too.
Good for her.
Trump will have to put up the 83 million plus 20% in cash before he can appeal, then his rent-a-lawyer didn’t object during most of the trial so even if he did put up the money, objections are used for appeals, they dont anything to appeal.
After the proceedings, his lawyer came out and did a spot on Trump impersonation, claiming that it was all rigged and the entire criminal justice system is politically conspiring against Trump. I wonder where Trump gets lawyers as crazy as he is. But, seriously, riling up the lunatics against the criminal justice system is one of the more dangerous trends promoted by Trump and his sycophants.
Yay!!! And she looked beautiful!!!
This is so delicious, in many, many ways—
Agree with Kaiser—he doesn’t have this kind of money. I’m willing to bet that his properties are leveraged to the hilt.
Cheeto is taken down by yet another woman. *chef’s kiss*
Most delicious to me is that it was George Conway (soon-to be-ex of Kellyanne Conway) who suggested E. Jean contact Roberta Kaplan (who represented E.Jean in this action).
Double delicious that he was beaten by an 80 yr old!
It’s delicious that he has to stump up with the funds in order to appeal. It just drags it out and reminds everyone of his unsuitability and if it peels off even a few of his supporters then great.
However Carroll should be awarded the $5 million from the original case. I know it doesn’t work like that but it should.
E. Jean lives in my town! Every so often I recognize her at the grocery wearing a mask and glasses and a baseball cap. My town also has a large amount of support for trump and crazy q anon supporters, people who were at Jan 6th. I believe she will absolutely need forever security and I hope she feels safe always!
I remember reading her column in Elle long ago. I always looked forward to it since the advice she dished out was so funny and sharp; she always seemed like one of those fabulous NY ladies. If she lives in such a maga heavy small town, I hope she moves. So happy for her!
I always enjoyed her column, as well. I was thinking ‘move’, but maybe she’s been where she is for a while & really loves it there, it’s her home, no matter that the neighborhood has gone to the dogs (MAGAs).
I’m glad that she got a significant amount. At first I was thinking that she would probably set up some kind of charity, and then I thought that she will need that money for security for the rest of her life.
Bless her for coming forward and being part of taking him down!
She’s had to put up with an awful lot of 💩 because of this creep. Yet, she refused to back down.
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AHAHAHAHAHA He is the epitome of a loser. And no way does he have that money. Seriously, what a loser.
His cult members will donate to the “cause” then sit in their basements waiting for Trump to call to thank them and confer some trinkets and honorary titles.
Yup, hell set up some Go Fund account or do cameos on Only Fans.
I’m so happy for her and I hope she feels all the support she has from people all over the world.
I hope Trump ends up destitute and alone, as would be his just reward.
Thank you E. Jean Carroll for doing what most were too afraid to do and getting a victory. I do hope this is the beginning of the end for Donald. Maybe all his campaign money is going to her, but I can’t imagine that the lunatics who financed his first campaign are willing to give more money? Probably, but not as much I hope.
Florida State Sen. Ileana Garcia had the gall to file a bill to have tax-payer money go to helping Trump pay his legal fees. DeSantis vetoed it immediately, the only decent thing he’s ever done.
Disgusting. Surely not legal, is it? Not that legalities ever bother trump & his acolytes, but still.
There was a psychic on Fox News very recently who predicted for Trump “a sense of loss.” I guess this what the psychic was referring to. 😂
At the same time, it’s truly awful that, in the courtroom, the judge in this case felt compelled to recommend that the jury should never admit that they served on this case.
I saw on the news that they were escorted to & from the court in vans through an underground entryway for their safety & anonymity.
There is a psychic I’m acquainted with who has predicted – for almost 3 years now – Tr*mp being in prison orange and behind bars. She also thinks it will happen before the election, and he will absolutely fall apart in prison. I wholeheartedly hope for and endorse that prediction coming true.
E. Jean was a member of my sorority (Pi Beta Phi at Indiana University) so I have known of her since undergrad. She was almost 20 years ahead of me, but already a legend in our house for her writing. Congratulations E Jean!!!
Cool! I love fun facts like this!
His fraud trial with Judge Engoron next week is going to bring another huge fine. Letitia James suggested $370 million, as well as banning him and his weaselly sons from the state’s real estate industry for life and barring him from serving as the officer or director of a New York corporation. His diapered ass is going to be so broke and I’m here for it.
I love this for him. I agree there’s no way he has the cash for this. He’s such a greasy little weasel though I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t follow through with an appeal, with a big speech (x a million) about how rigged it is against him.
Good.
But will he actually pay? CAN he actually pay?
I don’t know if he has the money, but it can’t be discharged through bankruptcy and Prime can be put on all his personal properties and bank accounts
Bad Janet, they can go after his assets. All of his real property and anything else that he owns in order to satisfy the judgment.
So something to keep in mind here – trump has testified in other proceedings about how much cash he has on hand. I think he said 400 million. So according to that, he should be able to come up with the 83 million pretty easily, right?
Unless of course he was lying in that other proceeding (bc of course he doesn’t have that 83 million) and then he’s looking at perjury on top of everything else 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Poor poodle.
The 🍊 with the very bad hair and make-up managed to turn a 5 million dollar judgment into an 83 million dollar judgement because he would not shut up. I know the internet lies and exaggerates, but how has anyone ever supported him?
I live in Chicago. When Trump won the 2016 election, I went downtown and flipped off the Trump building (it was very petty but felt good). I have vowed to be there, bottle of champagne in my hand, to party when the “TRUMP” letters come off that building. Maybe E. Jean’s victory will accelerate that! In which case, I hope she shows up and drinks some of my champagne!
Stay safe E. Jean, congratulations and thank you.
People who support him are already beyond what would make most people “unsuitable.” They will support him no matter what he does or is accused of–even if they witness it with their own eyes. They will still say “Lies” and “Corrupt Media.” There is literally NOTHING and I mean NOTHING that he has or can do that will pry his cult off his ass. They are lifers for him.
You go girl!! I’m so proud of her.