Donald Trump ordered to pay over $80 million in defamation trial | ITV News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump attended the trial fresh off big victories in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday and the Iowa caucuses last week.
46% : Kaplan told Trump he wasn't allowed to interrupt the proceedings.
41% : Trump told jurors on Thursday that he stood by that deposition, "100%."
41% : While Trump has said a lot about her to the court of public opinion, Thursday marked the first time he has directly addressed a jury about her claims.
36% : Even before taking the stand, Trump chafed at those limitations as the judge and lawyers for both sides discussed what he could be asked.
35% : Last year, a previous jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Ms Carroll in a department store dressing room in the 1990s and for making defamatory comments.
31% : This jury instead deliberated on how much Trump would have to pay the Ms Carroll for further remarks he made while president.
31% : Over the past week, jurors heard parts of a 2022 deposition in which Trump vehemently denied Carroll's allegations, calling her "sick" and a "whack job."
20% : Trump was also told to pay $65 million in punitive damages for acting maliciously in making the statements about Carroll.
19% : Because of the prior jury's findings, Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan said Trump now couldn't offer any testimony "disputing or attempting to undermine" the sexual abuse allegations.
17% : The longtime advice columnist alleges that Trump attacked her in 1996, then defamed her by calling her a liar when she went public with her story in a 2019 memoir.
16% : But on Friday, he left court three minutes into closing arguments by Ms Carroll's lawyer, who said Trump was a liar who thought rules did not apply to him.

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