Former President Donald Trump received some bad news from a federal jury on Friday who found that he must pay E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of harming her reputation as a trustworthy reporter when he denied raping her 30 years ago, $83.3 million dollars in damages. This is wacky, folks. A man denies allegations made against him and now he has to pay the accuser for sticking up for himself? Is our system of justice a complete joke or what?
This is really blowing my mind. Carroll says Trump raped her. He says no, I didn’t. That supposedly ruined her career and thus he owes her damages? Was he supposed to admit to a crime he didn’t do in order to preserve her career? I mean, I can’t be the only one who thinks this sounds insane.
Via Newsmax:
Carroll, 80, sued Trump in November 2019 over his denials five months earlier that he had raped her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan. Trump, 77, claimed that he had never heard of Carroll, and that she made up her story to boost sales of her memoir.
His lawyers said Carroll was hungry for fame and enjoyed the attention from supporters for speaking out against her nemesis. Another jury last May ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million over a similar October 2022 denial, finding that he had defamed and sexually abused Carroll. Trump is appealing that decision.
In the current trial, Carroll had sought at least $10 million more, saying Trump had “shattered” her reputation as a respected journalist who told the truth.
The accuser then sought out punitive damages as part of a strategy to prevent the former president from continuing to deny the allegations. Trump attempted to state several times during the trial that he had no clue who Carroll was and the whole thing was a “con job,” which ticked off the judge enough to order him to be quiet. Because they don’t want this man to protect his reputation against false allegations, but it’s okay for Carroll to sue someone for millions of dollars to do the same thing.
Insanity.
Trump stormed out of the courtroom during the closing argument on Friday by Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, but returned for his own lawyer’s argument. Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, had argued that Trump acted as though he wasn’t bound by the law.
Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba countered that it was the publication of excerpts from Carroll’s memoir in New York magazine that triggered the attacks, not Trump’s denials that began five hours later.
Carroll’s legal team managed to wrangle up a damages expert from Northwestern University who offered testimony on her behalf stating the harm done to her reputation was worth $7.3 million to $12.1 million.
This whole matter seems very suspicious. We live in an age where we are just supposed to believe the claims a woman makes about a sexual crime based solely on her word with zero evidence. As I’ve stated several times, that’s insane. We are innocent until proven guilty in this country. That used to be the pillar of our justice system. Too bad liberals have destroyed that.
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