First, the previous president was ordered by a jury to pay author E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for damages from defamation, after which he needed to endure the slings and arrows of snarky social media customers.
Carroll, a longtime recommendation columnist, has alleged that she was raped by Trump in 1996 in a dressing room at Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman division retailer.
After she wrote concerning the expertise in 2019, Trump referred to as her a “whack job” and a “fraud,” inspiring her to sue for defamation. That resulted in Trump being discovered accountable for defaming and for sexually abusing Carroll (although not raping her). He was additionally ordered to pay her $5 million in damages.
Still, that first penalty didn’t cease Trump from defaming Carroll, which led her to sue him once more and Friday’s large judgment.
Many folks on X, previously Twitter, used the decision as an excuse for a preferred social media exercise: busting Trump’s chops.