Writer E. Jean Carroll wins a huge judgment against Donald Trump for defamation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump reap­peared, but left before the jury returned its verdict.
55% : Trump was con­front­ed yes­ter­day with a big bill for being a bul­ly -- $83.3 million.
55% : The award dwarfs a $5 mil­lion judg­ment deliv­ered by a jury last year when it deter­mined that Trump had assault­ed Carroll.
51% : "Don­ald Trump is worth bil­lions of dol­lars," she argued.
44% : Trump sat mut­ter­ing at the defense table dur­ing sum­ma­tions, but walked out dur­ing a sum­ma­tion by Car­roll lawyer Rober­ta
42% : If Trump is forced to draw on his own wealth, that could be a prob­lem, and could neces­si­tate the divest­ment of assets from his real estate port­fo­lio.
39% : "Trump has used civ­il entan­gle­ments, and the nine­ty-one crim­i­nal charges he faces, to mobi­lize sup­port­ers in his bid to reclaim the pres­i­den­cy.
35% : Car­roll was an advice colum­nist with Elle mag­a­zine before she came under attack from Trump.
33% : At one point, the judge threat­ened to exclude Trump from his courtroom.
30% : He recent­ly sold his Wash­ing­ton, D.C. hotel -- a major hang­out for lob­by­ists and for­eign inter­ests dur­ing the Trump regime -- for $375 million.Crit­ics of Trump have found them­selves show­ered with threats and abuse on social media.
29% : Trump took to social media, label­ing his accuser a "whack job" and denied ever meet­ing E. Jean Car­roll, although the two were once pho­tographed togeth­er.
24% : The vast major­i­ty of the judg­ment -- $56 mil­lion -- con­sists of puni­tive dam­ages, designed to get Trump to shut up and stop defam­ing Carroll.Car­rol­l's attor­ney Kaplan brought up Trump's claims of bil­lion-dol­lar wealth in her sum­ma­tion.
23% : "You can't either," Trump shot back.
18% : A nine-mem­ber Man­hat­tan jury delib­er­at­ed just three hours before attach­ing a price tag to defam­a­to­ry remarks Trump made about a woman who accused him of sex­u­al assault in the dress­ing room of a pricey New York depart­ment store.
15% : Trump attor­ney Ali­na Han­na tried to gloss over the pres­sure on Car­roll, say­ing: "Pres­i­dent Trump has no more con­trol over the rights and feel­ings of social media than he does the weather.

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