Trump must pay $83.3m for defaming E. Jean Carroll

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : The question, coming as it does after a lifetime of Trump, says more about the media than the man.
37% : Trump, already found liable for $5m for sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s, must now pay $83.3m for subsequently defaming her in response to that verdict.
34% : Carroll won $18.3 million in compensation and $65 million in punitive damages -- an "eyewatering" amount, reports CNN -- and while Trump can appeal it, he must put the full amount in escrow to do so.
29% : The Atlantic's David A. Graham today asks "Is $83.3 Million Enough to Make Trump Stop Lying?"
27% : In the earlier trial, evidence Trump himself provided -- a deposition in which he reiterated attitudes to women earler voiced in the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape, described Carroll as not "his type", and mistook her for one of his former wives -- was instrumental in convincing jurors he had assaulted her.

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