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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump must pay $83 million for defaming accuser

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, January 26, and reports on the verdict in Trump's defamation case, RNC politics and the latest in the GOP primary election. Kristy Greenberg, Lisa Rubin, Emily Bazelon, Katie Phang, and Howard Dean join to discuss. Plus, rapper Wyclef Jean and Republican strategist Bill Kristol join Melber in the latest "Fallback" installment. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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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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