Trump ordered to pay writer Carroll $83.3m in defamation case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Friday's verdict was the second time Carroll has won damages from Trump at trial.
38% : Trump left the courthouse minutes before the verdict and was not inside the room when the jury returned.
28% : The nine New Yorkers - two women and seven men - ordered Trump to pay Carroll $11 million for a reputational repair program, $7.3 million in other compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages.
26% : Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleged that Trump raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim.
22% : On a Truth Social post, Trump blasted the verdict as "absolutely ridiculous" and said he would appeal the decision.
19% : Writer E. Jean Carroll departs from the courthouse after the conclusion of her damages trial against Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City, January 26, 2024.
11% : Last May, a separate Manhattan federal jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages, including nearly $3 million for defamation, after they found that Trump sexually abused Carroll and then defamed her in 2022 for public statements he made disparaging her and denying the allegations.

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