Former American President Donald Trump.| Photo: EFE
Former United States President Donald Trump was sentenced on Friday (26) to pay $83.3 million in damages for defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll. In 2019, Trump said he didn't know her and that the sexual abuse allegation she made against him was false.
After deliberating for three hours in federal court in Manhattan, New York, the jury of seven men and two women unanimously decided that the Republican presidential primary chairman should pay $18.3 million in reputational damages and financial damages and an additional $65 million Punitive damages, an amount much higher than that proposed during the trial.
Trump, who was present on the final day of the trial, left the courtroom before the verdict was announced and described the trial as “completely ridiculous” on his social network Truth Social. “There is no justice in America anymore. Our justice system is broken and unjust,” he wrote, without naming Carroll.
During the twoweek trial, the former president, who is trying to secure a Republican Party bid to return to the White House in the November elections, posted on his networks that he did not know Carroll and that the trial was a witch hunt, until to the point that some of her comments were used as evidence by the author's legal team. This is the second time that the writer and her lawyer Roberta Kaplan have won a lawsuit against Trump. Last May, a jury convicted the former president of sexual abuse and defamation (in other Trump statements) and ordered him to pay $5 million.
A day before the trial began, Trump won his first victory in the race for the Republican Party's nomination for the United States presidential nomination in this year's election, after receiving more than 50% of the vote in the Iowa caucus. And last Tuesday, Trump won the New Hampshire primary with more than half the electorate.
In court, Trump faces a civil fraud case against his family's business in which the former president could be fined up to $370 million and banned from owning real estate in New York state for life. Outside New York, Trump faces four additional criminal charges: two for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in which he lost to current President Joe Biden; one for bringing classified documents from the White House to his private residence in Florida; and one involved bribing porn actress Stromy Daniels to hide that they were having an affair before the 2016 presidential election, which he ultimately won.
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