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Donald Trump is ordered to pay for his bullying

A jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83m in a second defamation trial

E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court on  January 17th 2024
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If ordered to pay millions of dollars for defaming someone, most people would learn their lesson and zip it. Not so Donald Trump. Last May a jury in Manhattan determined that he owed E. Jean Carroll, an advice columnist, $5m in damages for sexually assaulting her nearly 30 years ago and then, in 2022, accusing her of making it up. Unbowed by the judgment, he called her a “whack job” on cnn the next day and denied ever having met her (even though they were photographed together). “I have no idea who the hell she is,” he protested.

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