It really didn't help his case that after the Jury had been seated...in a hearing where Trump is being painted as a person who thinks he is above the law.....got up and stormed out of the court room in a big spectacle before the Closing Remarks were given...which is pretty much unprecedented in Federal Court Settings and extremely disrespectful to the court and the jury. A big display of how he doesn't' think the rules and laws apply to him.
Jury awards Carroll $83.3 million in damages
Former President Donald Trump must pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her in 2019 after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in a department store in the 1990s.The jury determined that Trump must pay $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages.
Carroll had sought at least $12 million for reputation repair, plus compensatory and punitive damages.
A separate jury last year found Trump liable for sexually assaulting then defaming Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages.
The current jury of nine New Yorkers -- including a former schoolteacher, a transit worker, and a property manager -- rendered a verdict after deliberating for just under three hours.
