Today, I'm Ali Valshi.

We begin this morning with the blockbuster penalty that a jury has awarded the writer E. Jean Carroll

in her defamation case against the twice impeached four times indicted ex-president.

Yesterday, a jury held Donald Trump liable for defaming Carol and ordered him to pay a total of $83.3 million.

And that amount includes $11 million to repair damage to her reputation, $7.3 million for

emotional harm and other damages, and $65 million in punitive damages.

Now, this is in addition to the $5 million that a different jury

in a separate trial awarded Carol last year when it held Trump liable for sexually abusing

her during an encounter at a Bergdorf-Gudman department store in the 1990s and defaming her

after she told her story publicly in 2019.

So now that's a total of $88.3 million between Carol's two civil suits against Trump.

But in her closing argument, Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who represented Carol in both cases,

spoke about how that first trial had basically no effect on curbing

Trump's behavior.

Quote, typically, when someone is held liable in court for spreading false and defamatory lies,

they stop.

In this country, our justice system is how it, that is how it's supposed to work.

Even if you don't like a jury's decision, you are supposed to follow it.

Those are the rules.

This doesn't depend on your politics.

It doesn't depend on who you vote for, or whether you support a particular policy or a particular party.

We all have to follow the law.

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