Jury Rules Trump Must Pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million In Damages For Defamation

Are you looking for a reason to support The Revenge Tour?

CNBC:

“A federal jury on Friday said Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll a total of $83.3 million in damages for defaming her in statements he made as president after the writer said he had raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s.

The massive civil verdict — which comes on top of a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict that Carroll won against Trump last year — was delivered less than three hours after the nine-member jury began deliberating in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. … ”

New York Times:

“The meeting turned ugly fast.

In October 2022, Roberta Kaplan flew to Donald Trump’s estate, Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, to question him under oath in the defamation lawsuit that her client, the writer E. Jean Carroll, had filed against him after she accused him of sexually assaulting her.“

She’s not my type,” Mr. Trump said when he was asked if he raped Ms. Carroll in the mid-1990s in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York.

Then he shrugged, looked at Ms. Kaplan and pointed at her.

“You wouldn’t be a choice of mine either, to be honest with you,” he said, according to a transcript of the deposition. “I would not, under any circumstances, have any interest in you. I’m honest when I say it.”

She began another question, then paused and reminded him, “I’m an attorney.” … ”

Look no further than the E. Jean Carroll verdict.

As Jason Kessler points out, the same people who were behind the Sines v. Kessler lawfare case in Charlottesville – Reid Hoffman and Roberta Kaplan – which resulted in a $25 million judgment in civil court against the Unite the Right organizers are the ones who are behind this bullshit lawfare case against Donald Trump and this $83.3 million judgment. They are on the enemies list.

Note: This is one of the reasons why I am more indifferent to the outcome of the election. If Trump wins in 2024 and takes revenge against all of his various enemies, some of those enemies are our enemies.