Trump must pay $83 million for defaming accuser
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Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A jury just hit Donald Trump with this record-breaking penalty for lying about a sexual |
| 0:05.2 | assault accuser. |
| 0:07.1 | Defendant Trump ordered to pay 83 million dollars to the writer E. Jean Carroll. |
| 0:12.9 | She is the victorious plaintiff in this case. |
| 0:16.2 | And right here you could see as she first walked out of court |
| 0:19.2 | with her lawyers today. |
| 0:21.9 | Now we can tell you the jury deliberated for just under three hours that is |
| 0:24.8 | fast and they dealt Trump a huge loss with sets records and shows a very costly |
| 0:30.9 | miscalculation that he an ongoing defendant made by according to the court system |
| 0:36.7 | lying and defaming her again after a previous court victory. |
| 0:42.0 | Here are the numbers tonight. |
| 0:43.1 | If you've been watching the news, you may have seen some of this, I'm going to break it down for you. |
| 0:46.5 | 18 million dollars to compensate Carol. |
| 0:50.3 | Okay, that is what the jury found she should get for what she went through. |
| 0:53.5 | And then that larger number, a massive $65 million to punish this defiant defendant. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm going to walk you through why that is such a high number. |
| 1:05.0 | The jury determined that defendant Trump acted maliciously in the ways that he attacked |
| 1:10.1 | Carol. |
| 1:11.1 | Now this is big in every sense, large amount of money even for a wealthy |
| 1:14.9 | defendant a huge punishment administered by this court system which can |
| 1:19.2 | extract the funds directly from a defendant's account in this case a defendant who has been |
| 1:24.8 | found civilly liable. So it doesn't matter whether Donald Trump ever chooses to |
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