The Verdict: $83 Million

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So will he learn to shut up now? The jury took less than three hours to deliberate. I want to know if the three hours included lunch Just curious.

Nicole Lafond at Talking Points Memo:

After deliberating for less than three hours, the jury in the E. Jean Carroll civil trial against Donald Trump has determined that the former president must pay the writer $83.3 million in damages for defaming her in 2019 when she came forward accusing him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. 

Broken down, the jury determined Trump must pay $11 million in compensatory damages for a reputation repair program, $7.3 million in compensatory damages outside of the reputation program and $65 million in punitive damages. …

… The $83.3 million is in addition to the $5 million in damages a separate Manhattan jury awarded Carroll in May 2023 when the jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll —  $2 million in damages for her civil battery claim and nearly $3 million for successfully proving her defamation claim against the former president. Today’s damages verdict is related to a separate lawsuit the writer filed against Trump for defaming her in 2019.

Trump is pissed. More to come.

Update: I’m learning that in order to file an appeal, Trump has to come up with the money to pay the penalty. From the New York Times —

Mr. Trump can pay the $83.3 million to the court, which will hold the money while the appeal is pending. This is what he did last year when a jury ordered him to pay Ms. Carroll $5.5 million in a related case.

Or, Mr. Trump can try to secure a bond, which will save him from having to pay the full amount up front.

A bond might require him to pay a deposit and offer collateral, and would come with interest and fees. It would also require Mr. Trump to find a financial institution willing to lend him a large sum of money at a time when he is in significant legal jeopardy.

So this is going to hurt him now. It’ll be fun to see what he does. On MSNBC somebody pointed out that Trump Tower was appraised at just about $83 million.

 

23 thoughts on “The Verdict: $83 Million”

  1. Trump is pissed…..Ya think so? I guess he's gonna have to issue another series of NFT trading cards.
    Good on the bag of shit!

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      • That's well over a million MAGA hats. I think the MAGA hats sell for about $35.00 per hat. $83,300,000 divided by $35.00 = 2,380,000 hats He might have to start selling Trump steaks again to make up the difference or jack up the price of the hats.

        • Suprising I just guessed that Stump was selling those $1.50 made in china to the rubes for close to a hundy? Either way 70 million morons voted to give him the nuclear codes (twice) so I'm sure a couple million plus will fork over thirty five bucks to pay his assault rap!

  2. I'm often reminded of this immature brat whenever Trump is in the news. $83 million may not stop his mouth, and it certainly won't make him remorseful (a totally foreign emotion), but at least E Jean saw justice. Worst of all, from Trump's perspective, he's a loser – completely intolerable for him.

    I fear for Nikki Haley's life. Trump could get desperate enough to "order" a hit. This is how Putin operates. If her star ascends further, it wouldn't surprise me. Putin himself may order the hit.

  3. moonbat,

    I'd love nothing more than to say to you,  "Hey, whadda U think U're talkin' 'bout?!?!?

    U KKKrazy?!?!?!?!"

    But of course, you're NOT crazy!!!

    IMO:  You've analyzed the situation perfectly.

    But keep mind, Putin has even more at stake, than tRUMP.

     

     

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  5. Harry Litman says that $83 million is in the goldilocks zone – when compared to other similar cases. And so it's likely to stand on appeal.

    After the verdict, Trump screamed at the judge, the courts, and everyone but E Jean Carroll. He may finally have learned something, that the court system is going to clip his wings, he can't get away with anything.

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  7. But he's a "billionaire businessman!" surely 83 million is pocket change for il Duce. 

    I believe this is what he fears most, being exposed as broke, indebted fraud.

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  8. Folks, sometime in the next few weeks the decision will come in on the civil fraud case. IMO, we're talking about $250 million. That's in the hands of a judge Trump harassed mercilessly. So in the span of a month, it's gonna be more than 300 million Trump has to pay up or secure in a bond to appeal. And the NY civil case has a federal retired judge looking over Trump's shoulder to make sure assets aren't moved out of NY. 

    On the subject of shutting Trump up, he has replied that it's "unfair" and he will appeal but not one word about Carroll. I think the award will push Trump into a "No comment" zone for the first time in his life. And though that sounds funny, it'd gonna hit the MAGA crowd that Trump has accepted the limits imposed by a jury that can dip deep into Trump's bank account. There are other civil suits in the wings for J6. 

    Trump will try to play the victimhood card. It will resonate with the MAGA crowd but will "regular" Americans take note that this is the penalty a convicted rapist is being assessed for lying about the victim of a sexual assault? (I think yes.) And Trump is in a corner – he can't defame the victim without risking another session before a jury. If Trump doesn't destroy E. Jean Carroll, an old lady, Trump looks like an even weaker old man to MAGA. 

    It was a good day.

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  9. The best part of this is that the tRUMP could have paid the original settlement of 5.5million and been done, He just could not keep his lying mouth shut.  He is not finished yet, but there is a black cloud of circling vultures above him.  What patient and prehensive creatures they are.  The bankers know the early bird gets the best pickings. They will act quickly. 

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  10. Abruptly storming out of the courtroom during closing arguments is a sign; he will try to flee the country.

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  12. In her post-trial rant to the press, Alina Habba seemed to insinuate that Ms. Carroll was a drug addict which was a blatant misrepresentation of what a witness had written – that Ms. Carroll "was LIKE a drug addict".  So, is she completely under the influence of her star client, trying her hand at the defamation game?  One would think she might have learned something about defamation in her on-the-job training along with Rules of Evidence.

  13. This made me happy, I saw this on another lefty blog:

    "At the rate this is going, Melania is going to have to marry E. Jean Carroll to get any of Donald's money"

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  14. One of Trump's earlier lawyers said that Alina Habba's incompetence was like a client being undefended. When your lawyer screws up, it damages the way a jury evaluates a client. Joyce Vance said she would not be surprised if the judge referred Habba to the bar for disciplinary action. Habba was arguing with the judge over issues already settled – you don't get to do this in a court of law.

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