Trump 'ranted nonstop' all weekend after Carroll verdict: report

Former President Donald Trump spent the weekend furiously raging about the E. Jean Carroll trial to anyone who would listen, reportedThe Washington Post.

This comes after the case was decided on Friday, with a jury awarding Carroll $83.3 million in damages over Trump's defamatory claims that Carroll was lying about her rape allegation to sell books.

"People who spoke to Trump over the weekend said he ranted nonstop, often profanely, about how he’d never met Carroll, how he wasn’t permitted by the judge to speak freely at the trial and how the jury just made up a number in awarding the verdict," reported Shayna Jacobs, Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Isaac Stanley-Becker. "Mainly, Trump kept repeating that he doesn’t know her, these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations."

Trump's claim to not know Carroll, which he has also stated publicly on many occasions, was an integral part of the jury's finding that Trump defamed her. She alleges Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store in the late 1990s, and Trump's claim that he had never met her and she was making it up was, according to Carroll, responsible for constant harassment and her inability to find work.

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Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the case, told the defense and the jury they couldn't revisit whether this claim was true, as a previous jury already settled that as a factual matter.

Going forward, noted the report, "Trump’s legal team could try to get the Supreme Court to examine aspects of the case if he loses on appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in Manhattan. That would come after other routine post-verdict motions were decided. That means Carroll, 80, may not see the money for many months or years. She could opt to work with a litigation finance firm that for a considerable fee would essentially front her the money owed by Trump."