Jean Carroll goes to court after President Trump is ordered to pay $83.3 million for defamation
An elated E-Jean Carroll cried and hugged her lawyers in a New York courtroom Friday after a jury handed down an $83 million verdict against Donald Trump.
Carroll declined to speak as she left the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan, but her one-liners about X left no doubt about her state of mind.
“Exhilaration!!!” The former Elle Advice written by a columnist.
After the trial, which was highlighted by a tense exchange between Trump’s lawyer Alina Haba and Judge Lewis Kaplan, the former president awarded the author $11 million in reputation rehabilitation programs and $730 in other compensatory damages. He was ordered to pay $65 million in punitive damages.
Mr. Trump was not in court for the sentencing, leaving Lower Manhattan in a motorcade just before the verdict was read. Earlier in the day, he stormed out of the courtroom during closing arguments, but returned for the sum of his defense.
Meanwhile, Judge Kaplan advised jurors never to reveal that they served on a jury, which caused the former president to rage online.
The former president testified for just three minutes Thursday under strict guidelines on what he could say because a previous jury had already spotted him. Takes responsibility for sexual abuse of Carol.
President Trump blames Biden for aging
Trump returned to a familiar attack theme in Nevada, accusing Joe Biden of being senile, as questions about Trump’s mental acuity mount.
“We have a man negotiating for us who can’t put two sentences together… He can’t find his way off the stage.”
He claimed the world was moving closer to global conflict while Biden was asleep at the wheel.
Trump also claims he is much younger than his likely Democratic challenger in the general election. Trump is 77 years old and Biden is 81.
“I feel more alert now than I was 20 years ago,” he added.
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 22:09
President Trump vows to send ‘reinforcements’ to Texas border
Amid the ongoing border standoff between Texas and federal authorities, Trump has vowed to support Governor Greg Abbott.
“If I were president, I would send reinforcements to the state of Texas, not a restraining order,” he said.
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 22:04
Trump holds rally in Nevada
Donald Trump is holding a political rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, where early voting for the state’s primary election begins today.
Trump, who was just ordered to pay $83 million to E. Jean Carroll, is slamming the 2020 election, Joe Biden and the border.
He has remained conspicuously silent about Carroll since the jury’s verdict.
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 22:00
Summary: President Trump orders E-Jean Carroll to pay $83 million for defamation.
A nine-person jury awarded Carroll 6,500 yen after he was previously found responsible for the sexual abuse and then lied about her sexual assault allegation, leading to aggravated verbal abuse and death threats. The defendant was awarded $10,000 in punitive damages and more than $18 million in compensatory damages. against her.
The verdict was handed down Friday after about three hours of deliberation after a contentious two-week civil trial in federal court in Manhattan. Trump’s lawyers aggressively fought against Carroll’s lawsuit, but the former president repeatedly attacked and even defamed her at press conferences. Even in his dozens of posts on Truth Social.
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 22:00
Fani Willis accused of instilling ‘racial animus’ in Georgia case by Trump lawyer
Lawyers for Donald Trump have joined a legal effort by one of his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case to disqualify Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case.
A complaint filed Thursday by Trump’s lawyers accuses Willis of injecting “racial animus” into the case and violating her prosecutorial duties, accusing her of injecting “racial animus” into the case and violating her prosecutorial duties. It has been pointed out that he is suspected of having hired a public prosecutor.
The allegations come from Trump’s lawyers Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little, co-defendants who claimed in court filings that Willis appointed Nathan Wade as lead prosecutor in the case even though she was in a romantic relationship with him. This is based on the claims of Mike Roman.
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 21:30
Haley trolls President Trump by threatening to ban donors from MAGA
“That’s enough…bring your shirt here!” Hailey wrote in a post on X, along with a link to purchase the T-shirt.
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 21:00
Giuliani targets Donald Trump for ‘unpaid legal fees’ in new bankruptcy filing
Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, has filed a new bankruptcy filing with claims against the one-term president for unpaid legal fees.
The former New York mayor’s lawsuit includes “a possible claim for unpaid legal fees against Donald J. Trump.” The Jan. 26 filing states the amount is “undetermined.”
Mr. Giuliani represented Mr. Trump in a series of lawsuits challenging the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden.
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 20:30
‘Pathetically weak’: criticizes Republicans for bowing to President Trump on border deal
Republican lawmakers echoed President Donald Trump’s call to reject a bipartisan border deal, sparking outrage on both sides of the aisle.
The one-term president privately told some Republican senators to avoid bipartisan compromise on the U.S. southern border, denying Joe Biden a presidential victory, according to an anonymous source. a source said. HuffPost.
“Trump doesn’t want Biden to win, so he’s trying to destroy it,” the source said. “He told them that when he became president he would fix the border…He said he only wanted a perfect deal.”
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 20:00
Why President Trump’s loyalty demands make governing impossible
Eric Garcia We look at how Donald Trump’s desire for loyalty could upend any possible agenda in his return to the White House…
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 19:30
ICYMI: Donald Trump forces his way through closing arguments in E. Jean Carroll trial
The former president returned to Manhattan federal court Friday morning after testifying briefly for his defense Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, he continued to attack the former on Truth Social. Elle Magazine columnists who made more potentially defamatory statements.
He did not appear in court as the jury ordered Carroll to pay $83 million in damages.
bevan hurleyJanuary 27, 2024 19:00