2024-01-26 21:50:34
Published26. January 2024, 10:50 p.m
Defamation trial: Donald Trump must pay $83.3 million in compensation
Former US President Donald Trump must pay an additional $83.3 million in compensation for defaming author E. Jean Carroll.
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Former US President Donald Trump must pay author E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages.
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Carroll accuses Trump of ruining her reputation by calling her a liar.
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Trump continues to say he was wrongfully accused.
Former US President Donald Trump has been sentenced to a further compensation payment of $83.3 million (almost 72 million Swiss francs) in a second defamation trial in New York. This was decided by a jury on Friday, as US media unanimously reported.
It was the second civil lawsuit brought by 80-year-old US author E. Jean Carroll once morest Trump. The sum is many times higher than the more than ten million dollars demanded by Carroll.
Trump called Carroll a liar
At the end of the first trial in May, a New York jury found it proven that Trump had attacked Carroll in a luxury New York department store in 1996, sexually abused her and later slandered her by calling her a liar. The jury then awarded the writer compensation of five million dollars (around 4.3 million francs).
Before the start of the second trial, Judge Lewis Kaplan had ruled that Trump’s later comments were defamatory. The jury now only had to decide on the amount of compensation that Trump had to pay.
Court dates as an election campaign event
Trump appeared in person several times in the second trial – unlike in the first – and attracted attention through numerous commenting opinions, which is why the judge had threatened to exclude him in the meantime.
The 77-year-old is considered the Republicans’ most promising candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for November. However, he currently has to deal with the courts in numerous different cases. Trump often uses the court dates as a kind of campaign event.
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