Jury hits Trump with massive amount of damages in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial

The jury has reached a decision in Donald Trump's second defamation trial involving E. Jean Carroll, according to Inner City Press.

Jurors awarded the author and columnist $7.3 million for compensatory damages, $11 million to restore her reputation, and $65 million in punitive damages for defamatory statements Trump made against Carroll while serving as president after she accused him of raping her decades ago in a Manhattan department store dressing room. The total amount is $83.3 million,

CNN called it a "significant victory" for the defamed columnist.

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Trump was already found liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a previous trial in which jurors determined that Carroll's allegations were factual and ordered the former president to pay her $5 million in damages for defamatory statements he made after leaving the White House.

The second trial was scheduled after a federal appeals court rejected Trump's claim of presidential immunity for statements he made while in office, and U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan did not allow the defense team to dispute the jury's findings in the first trial.