Exposing the former US President Donald Trump He suffered a severe defeat – yesterday, Friday – before a jury in Manhattan, New York, after it ordered him to pay compensation, worth $83.3 million, to journalist E. Jane Carroll, who said that he had destroyed her reputation and people’s trust in her by denying that he had raped her about three decades ago.

The injunction also includes $65 million in punitive damages after the jury found that Trump behaved poorly in his public comments about Carroll, $7.3 million in compensatory damages, and $11 million for the reputational injury recovery program.

It took less than three hours for the jury to reach a verdict, and the damages far exceed the minimum $10 million Carroll was seeking.

Trump resumes

For his part, the former president said he would appeal, describing the jury's ruling as “ridiculous.”

Trump was not obligated to attend or provide testimony, but he attended to turn his trial sessions into platforms to promote his presidential campaign, claiming that each session was part of an attempt by the Democrats to prevent his return to the White House.

Trump's conviction

Carroll had filed a civil lawsuit – on charges of defamation – against Trump in November 2019 due to his denial, 5 months before that date, of raping her in the mid-nineties of the last century in a dressing room at a Bergdorf Goodman store in New York.

Trump was convicted last May of sexually assaulting Carroll in 1996 and defaming her in 2022, and was obligated to pay her previous compensation amounting to $5 million.

Although the court in New York unanimously convicted Trump last May, the former president continued to defame the journalist, describing her as a liar and “crazy” and as a “fake woman” who spreads a “false narrative” in order to sell a new book, saying that he had never seen Carroll in his life, according to His expression.

It is noteworthy that Trump easily won the primary elections in New Hampshire over his only remaining competitor, Nikki Haley, and he is close to becoming the Republican nominee for the presidential elections in November against the current president. joe biden