Trump should pay an extra $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll in defamation case
A jury has awarded an extra $83.3 million to longtime recommendation columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump broken her status by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has filed one other longshot lawsuit towards the information media, this time suing ABC News and host George Stephanopoulos for claims that he raped author E. Jean Carroll.
In an interview on ABC’s “This Week” earlier this month, Stephanopoulos requested U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.: “You endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape.”
The host then asked Mace how she could square her endorsement of Trump with speaking openly about being a survivor of sexual assault.
The South Carolina lawmaker replied: “It was not a criminal court case, number one … Number two, I live with shame. And you’re asking me a question about my political choices trying to shame me as a rape victim.”
A jury in one in all two defamation instances introduced by Carroll discovered Trump answerable for “sexual abuse” final 12 months, however rejected the allegation of “rape.”
A decide, nonetheless, mentioned in dismissing a countersuit that the proof and the jury’s findings established “the substantial reality” of Carroll’s rape allegations.
Trump has been assessed damages of practically $90 million within the two Carroll trials, which have centered round feedback he has made publicly responding to the columnist’s claims.
Trump has a historical past of submitting lawsuits towards the media that go nowhere. In one occasion, a decide ordered Trump to pay greater than $392,000 in authorized charges to The New York Times over a frivolous lawsuit.
