The verdict comes after a dramatic day in court that included the former president storming out of the courtroom during Carroll's closing argument.

Former President Donald Trump must pay writer E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in damages for repeatedly defaming her, a jury found Friday.

The nine-person jury began deliberations in federal court in New York at 1:40 p.m. ET and reached a verdict in just under three hours.

  • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    9 months ago

    It’s complete insanity that neither party is using this case against Trump during the primaries. Especially Haley, it’s a gift wrapped opportunity for her to score points on Trump and she completely ignores it. Her campaign was a lost cause from the start but none of the Republican candidates have acted like they are even trying.

    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
      25·
      9 months ago

      Erm, Haley is using this for her campaign:

      “Donald Trump wants to be the presumptive Republican nominee and we’re talking about $83 million in damages. We’re not talking about fixing the border. We’re not talking about tackling inflation,” Haley said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “America can do better than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”

      Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4432630-haley-trump-defamation-verdict-america-can-do-better/

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        She’s not wrong that we can do better.

        She’s just wrong in assuming she is better.

        • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
          7·
          9 months ago

          I mean, I certainly don’t intended to vote for her over Biden, even considering my distaste for Biden, but I would say she is better than Trump from what I’ve seen. She seems more like “regular” republican evil primarily dangerous due to harmful policies, which is still plenty bad to be fair, but I don’t expect we’d be as likely to have her try a coup should she lose an election.

          • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            I’d take her over Trump for sure.

            But Biden over her, and like, fucking any other Democrat over Biden.

            But this is where we’re at, so I guess I’ll fall in line.

    • meco03211@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 months ago

      They don’t know about it. Legit know someone that doesn’t know all the legal issues trump is currently going through. Lots of “if he committed a crime why hasn’t he been charged?” It was a bit surreal. All the witch hunt talk has saturated the conversation so they don’t even know official proceedings are fully underway. They think because he hasn’t actually paid the damages to E Jean Carrol it means he wasn’t found “guilty” (because they don’t understand the nuance between civil and criminal).

    • eran_morad@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      Let me get this straight: you think the

      grab em by the pussy

      crowd is gonna give a flying shit?!?

      • Ænima@lemm.ee
        2·
        9 months ago

        Maybe not the moonshine-addled MAGA crowd, but there are plenty of faux Republicans (centrists) who may.