2024-01-27 01:08:11
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is leaving the court after appearing in his second civil trial on the 26th. Former President Trump was awarded 110 billion won in damages by a jury for defaming female columnist Gene Carroll. / Reuters Yonhap News
Former U.S. President Donald Trump was ordered to pay a fine of about 110 billion won ($83.3 million) for defaming female columnist E. Jean Carroll, who filed a lawsuit claiming she had sexually assaulted him. At the trial held at the Manhattan District Court in New York on the 26th, the nine-member jury reached a verdict, saying, “The actual damage suffered by Carol was significant.” Her plaintiff, Carroll, asked for $24 million in damages in court today, but she had set a much larger amount as punitive damages. Of the $83.3 million, $18.3 million is compensation for actual damages and the remaining $65 million is punitive damages.
Gene Carroll leaves federal court in Manhattan, New York, following the conclusion of his civil libel trial against former President Donald Trump on January 26, 2024. The jury awarded Carroll a total of $83.3 million in damages, including $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages, in the civil defamation trial she filed against former President Trump. It was judged that he had acted maliciously toward one./Getty Images/AFP Yonhap News
This trial is related to a lawsuit filed saying, “I was sexually assaulted by Trump, whom I met by chance at a New York department store in 1996.” Trump refuted that Carroll was lying, but the court ruled that Carroll’s claims were true and that Trump defamed her, and ordered Trump to pay $5 million (about 6.725 billion won) in damages in May of last year. . Even after depositing the compensation in court, Trump insisted that Carroll had made false accusations against him, and Carroll, furious, filed a new lawsuit demanding $10 million in compensation.
Carroll’s lawyer said on this day, “Trump estimated the value of his brand alone to be $10 billion and the value of his real estate assets to be $14 billion,” and asked for at least $24 million in compensation for psychological damage. On this day, while the trial was in progress, Trump posted 16 posts in 15 minutes on his social media, Truth Social, criticizing the judge and Carroll’s lawyer.
After the verdict, Trump said he would appeal, saying, “This case is a witch hunt ordered by President Biden” and “This is not America.”
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