E Jean Carroll wants to use some of the $83. 3 million she won in her case against former President Donald Trump to spend on something that he doesn’t like.
She was very scared to go to court against Mr. Trump, but when she saw him, her fear went away.
Before the trial, a judge decided that Mr. Trump had hurt her reputation by saying that her accusation of sexual assault against him was not true.
He was held responsible last year for sexually abusing Ms. Carroll in the 1990s. The jury did not believe that she was raped.
Mr Trump said he will try to change the court’s decision because he believes it is very unfair.
Ms Carroll, who is 80 years old, said to ABC News on Monday that she wants to give the money to something that Donald Trump doesn’t like.
“If giving money to certain things will hurt him, then that’s what I want to do. ”
The writer of the magazine recommended using the money to help women who were sexually attacked by Donald Trump.
Many women have said that the old president hurt them, forced them into sexual things, and bothered them sexually starting from the 1970s. He says he didn’t do anything wrong.
Ms Carroll said that Mr Trump did something wrong to her in the dressing room of a fancy store in Manhattan in the 1990s.
The person being interviewed on Monday said she had a hard time eating and sleeping before the trial. She was sitting next to her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, during the interview.
However, she said she felt less anxious when she saw him in court.
“I saw outside,” she said. “He was there, and it seemed like he had nothing on – like an emperor with no clothes. ”
Ms Carroll told ABC that some of the people who make decisions in the court smiled at her when they left. They decided to give her $18. 3m to make up for her losses and $65m as punishment.
“It made me cry because they looked into my eyes for the first time,” she said.
Mr Trump, who is 77 years old, has to start paying Ms. Carroll, as stated by her lawyer, unless there is an appeal.
Ms Kaplan said that Mr Trump would need to get a bond so he doesn’t have to pay all of the $83. 3 million at once.
However, he would also need to borrow a large amount of money from a bank and pay interest on it.
Mr Trump could also just put $83. 3 million in the court.
Last year, he had to pay $5. 5 million for saying bad things about Ms Carroll. He paid all the money.
If he doesn’t do what he’s supposed to, Ms Carroll can start collecting money right away. Ms Kaplan said she is sure he will eventually pay.
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Carroll plans to invest $83 million on “something Trump hates”
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Trump runs to court as Carroll wants $10 million for defamation
Donald Trump might go to a court in New York and might have to speak as part of his defence in a trial where a writer, E Jean Carroll, is suing him for saying something bad about her.
In an earlier trial, a group of people decided that Carroll was hurt by Trump in the 1990s, but now she’s suing him for things he said when he was president.
A judge said Trump’s words were mean, and now the jury will decide how much money he has to give. Carroll wants $10 million because she says Trump’s comments hurt her reputation and caused a lot of death threats.
Trump says he did nothing wrong. There are several legal problems happening with Trump while he is trying to become the Republican presidential candidate.
He will be in New Hampshire tonight before the primary on Tuesday.
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Trump loses civil trial to E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexual abuse and defamation
A federal jury in New York has ruled that former President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, a journalist and former advice columnist who accused him of raping her in a department store in the mid-1990s.
The jury of six men and three women awarded Carroll $5 million in damages on Monday, after deliberating for less than three hours.
They found that Trump committed battery against Carroll by forcibly kissing and groping her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury store in Manhattan. They also found that Trump defamed Carroll by calling her a liar and implying that she fabricated the story to sell her book.
Carroll, who wrote the popular “Ask E. Jean” column for Elle magazine for 26, first made the allegations against Trump in her 2019 memoir, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal. She said that Trump attacked her in late 1995 or early 1996, when they ran into each other at the store and he asked her to help him pick out a gift for a woman. She said she tried to fight him off, but he overpowered her and penetrated her.
Trump, who was not present at the trial and did not testify, has denied the allegations. He said he never met Carroll, even though there is a photo of them together at a party in 1987. He also said she was not his type, and suggested she made up the story to boost sales of her. In October 2022, he posted a statement on his website accusing Carroll of being part of a “radical left” conspiracy to smear him.
Carroll sued Trump for defamation and battery in November 2022, under the New York State Adult Survivors Act, which allows victims of sexual abuse to file civil lawsuits even if the statute of limitations has expired. She did not specify an amount in her lawsuit, but asked for monetary damages and a retraction of Trump’s statement.
Carroll celebrated the verdict on Monday, saying she was “overjoyed” and “grateful” to the jury. She also thanked her lawyers and supporters for standing by her.
“This is for every woman who has ever been harassed, assaulted, silenced or spoken up,” she said outside the courthouse. “This is for you.”
Trump’s lawyers said they would appeal the verdict, calling it “a travesty of justice” and “a politically motivated attack” on the former president. They also claimed that Carroll had no evidence to support her claims, and that Trump had a right to express his opinion about her allegations.
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“Whether I screamed or not, he raped me – Trump’s accuser
Ex-President Donald Trump’s accuser claimed that he raped her regardless of if she screamed or not.
Columnist E Jean Carroll faced cross-examination on her second day on the witness stand Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Carroll, 79, claims that Trump, 76, sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in 1996.
Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina barraged Carroll with dozens of questions on why she did not scream during the alleged rape.
‘I’m not a screamer,’ she said. ‘You can’t beat up on me for not screaming.’
Former Elle magazine advice columnist E Jean Carroll (right) answers questions from her lawyer Michael Ferrara at the start of the third day of the civil trial (Picture: Reuters) Carroll added: ‘People always ask, “Why didn’t you scream?” It keeps women silent.’
Tacopina painted a picture of Carroll waiting more than two decades to go public with her accusations so that she could sell more copies of a 2019 memoir.
Carroll pushed back, saying that 2017 rape allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and the surrounding #MeToo movement of women sharing their stories of sexual abuse prompted her to speak up.
‘It caused me to realize that staying silent does not work,’ she said.
Ex-President Donald Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina (left) arrives for the third day of a civil trial against his client at Manhattan Federal Court on Thursday (Picture: Getty Images) As Tacopina continued to press Carroll on why she did not scream, she raised her voice and said: ‘I’m telling you: He raped me whether I screamed or not.’
Tacopina brought up an excerpt from Carroll’s 2019 book she was working on but was never published.
‘I’ve become persuaded that he wants to kill me… as he stacks the courts, my rights over my body are being taken away… I’m afraid that my right to free speech will go next,’ Carroll wrote.
Her excerpt also stated that Trump was ‘poisoning my water’ and ‘he’s polluting my air’.
Tacopina questioned Carroll on why she could not recall the exact date that Trump allegedly raped her.
‘I wished to heaven we could give you a date,’ Carroll replied.
In opening statements, Tacopina had said Trump cannot give an alibi without knowing the precise date of Carroll’s allegation.
Tacopina aimed to highlight Carroll’s lapses in memory. He asked her if she first spotted Trump through a revolving door.
‘I know it’s a revolving door,’ she said.
Then Tacopina pointed out an excerpt from her book in which she wrote that it ‘could have been a regular door at that time, I can’t recall’.
The cross-examination began tense, with Tacopina saying, ‘good morning’, and Carroll not saying anything but nodding slightly. She responded after Tacopina’s second ‘good morning’.
Trump’s lawyer asked Carroll detailed questions, like if his client said the word ‘lingerie’ in asking her to advise him on a gift for another woman. Tacopina also asked which floor of the store she and Trump were on.
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on various occasions called out Tacopina for ‘repetitive’ and ‘argumentative’ questions to Carroll.
Carroll took the stand on the third day of the trial at 10.30am, with one of her attorneys, Mike Ferrara, finishing up his questioning that began on Wednesday.
Kaplan dismissed the jury in the late afternoon and said the trial would resume on Monday. Tacopina said he was ‘more than halfway’ through questioning Carroll. The judge reminded jurors not to speak or read about the case.
Shortly before the jury was dismissed, Trump held a campaign speech in New Hampshire. He slammed his other legal cases he faces, but did not mention Carroll or the rape trial. Trump has not yet appeared in court for the rape trial and is not obligated to.