E. Jean Carroll's lawyer thinks hefty judgment may have finally shut Trump up

Former President Donald Trump may have finally been hit hard enough in the pocketbook to learn some basic sense, said attorney Shawn Crowley in an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC Monday.

Trump is being forced to pay $83.3 million in damages to writer E. Jean Carroll for his defamatory statements calling her a liar for accusing him of rape. Crowley, along with fellow attorney Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan, successfully litigated the case.

"In closing and opening the trial, you asked jurors to consider awarding punitive damages. How much would it cost to make Trump stop lying about Ms. Carroll? How high would the number have to be in order to deter him from continuing to do what he has been doing to E. Jean," recalled Maddow. "Do you think the award in this case is sufficient to make him stop?"

"It's really hard to say with someone like that," said Crowley, but she added, "So far, it has been, which I think is pretty remarkable given who he is and what he's done to E. Jean pretty much relentlessly over the last four years."

"I do have to say that I think he, himself, during the trial, helped us make that argument by, you know, leaving court each day and posting on Truth Social and giving press conferences where he continued to defame her after having literally been sitting in court on trial for defaming her," Crowley continued.

Carroll described Trump as "not there" and characterized him as a "walrus, snorting" during the proceedings.

"And then just his behavior in the courtroom. He just refused to follow the rules," Crowley explained. "He was shaking his head, he was shouting, and he walked out during Robbie's closing argument, which is something I've never seen before in a court of law."

"And so, I think that it sort of helped the jury to not just have to believe what we were telling them, but to get to actually see it with their own eyes the way that this guy just believes that he is not bound by any rules or laws," she closed.

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