The trial that ended today focused only on what damages the former US president would have to pay for defaming her.<\/p>\n
The amount is considerably more than the $10m (\u00a37.9m) Ms Carroll had been seeking.<\/p>\n
The former Elle magazine advice columnist accused Trump of destroying her reputation as a trustworthy journalist by accusing her of lying about her rape allegation.<\/p>\n
The 80-year-old said Trump’s comments caused her to be subjected to years of continuous attacks, including death threats.<\/p>\n
A lawyer for the former president argued Ms Carroll did not deserve any money, claiming she enjoyed the attention and suffered neither professional nor emotional harm after Trump branded her a liar.<\/p>\n
Trump, 77, accused Ms Carroll of making up the encounter to boost sales of her memoir, and has maintained he had never heard of her.<\/p>\n
He also attacked Ms Carroll during the trial and on the presidential campaign trial, proclaiming her case a “witch hunt” and a “con job”.<\/p>\n
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Trump had earlier stormed out of the courtroom<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as Ms Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan began her closing argument on Friday.<\/p>\n Ms Kaplan told jurors they should punish Trump for persistently lying about her client.<\/p>\n “We all have to follow the law,” Ms Kaplan said. “Donald Trump, however, acts as if these rules and laws just don’t apply to him.”<\/p>\n Trump,\u00a0who is the clear favourite to be the Republican candidate in the US election later this year<\/a><\/strong>, attended the entire trial except for opening statements, which he skipped for a presidential campaign event.<\/p>\n He is seeking to retake the White House in the November election in a likely showdown against Democrat Joe Biden, who beat him in 2020.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mark Stone<\/a> US correspondent @Stone_SkyNews<\/a><\/p>\n Make no mistake this is a staggering amount of money.<\/p>\n The breakdown of the whopping $83.3m was detailed in the jury’s verdict form.<\/p>\n E Jean Carroll has been awarded $7.3m in compensatory damages “outside of the reputation repair program” and $11m in compensatory damages for a “reputation repair program only”.<\/p>\n The bulk of the $83.3m comes from the jury’s conclusion that, in defaming her, Mr Trump acted “maliciously, out of hatred, ill will, spite, vindictively, in wonton, reckless or wilful disregard of Ms Carroll’s rights”.<\/p>\n For that, the jury, of seven men and two women, concluded he must pay her $65m in punitive damages.<\/p>\n The total represents more than eight times the figure Ms Carroll had asked for in her initial lawsuit.<\/p>\n As part of the original civil case last May, in which Mr Trump was found liable for the sexual assault of Ms Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, a jury awarded her $5m in damages.<\/p>\n The huge sum is an attempt to rein the former president in.<\/p>\n Ms Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, had told the court during proceedings that: “This case is also about punishing Donald Trump\u2026 This trial is about getting him to stop once and for all.”<\/p>\n It was a fiery trial, with Mr Trump leaving abruptly on a number of occasions.<\/p>\n On the last day, his lawyer, Alina Habba, tried to introduce new evidence. The judge dismissed it, adding: “Ms Habba, you are on the verge of spending some time in the lock-up, now sit down.”<\/p>\n There’s no sign Donald Trump will be deterred even by this huge sum. He knows his witch-hunt claims resonate deeply with his many supporters.<\/p>\n Across America,\u00a0we have found his appeal remains strong<\/a><\/b>. And he will expect that donations for him will pour in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Source: \u00a0\n
NO SIGN TRUMP WILL BE DETERRED – EVEN BY THIS HUGE SUM<\/h4>\n
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