Trump ordered to pay staggering $83.3 million in damages for defaming sex accuser E. Jean Carroll after New York jury deliberated for less than three hours in blockbuster civil trial

• The jury returned with a quick verdict on how much Trump should pay 
• He was ordered to fork out $7.3 million for 'emotional harm' to Carroll and another $11 million for 'reputational damages'
• Former president was also told to hand over a whopping $65 million in 'punitive damages'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13011947/trump-defamation-trial-verdict-e-jean-carroll-sexual-assault.html

hang him vkng high

A nice case that would be appealed.   Juries in New York are always political and this case will not get far on appeal.   Trump probably even knew this ugly women in 1994 and she sis a political hater of Trump waiting till now to charge Trump with sexual assault.   About as believable as the moon is made of green cheese.   Political BS on the marc h again.

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...without a single piece of hard evidence...

Yes the verdict was expected from these morons on the left and celebrated by the clowns on this site.

Yet once again a show of the bias that has overtaken the Demorats in their desperate plot to GET PRESIDENT TRUMP at any cost and or way.

Pity them.

Lets see what happens in the polls. This news is all over Twitter etc. A nother backfire looms.

Sorry to burst your bubble guy but this verdict will be appealed and man are your creepers going to go balistic.

Best at this stage to view any high bridges to jump from after the appeal.

Sorry I forgot you live in NZ so best go to Oz to find a high one then to do your thing.

JUMP.

Just wow dumbmike, somehow she knew 22 years before hand he would become president so saved her allegations till he got there.

That really is a stunning piece of mental gymnastics on your part that out does any of your previous insane claims. 

You have done something I thought impossible and that is knock pedobeeno off the top spot of stupidity and that certainly took some doing.

C F

Be happy while it lasts.    This is just an extension of the fake criminal charges against Tump.    It will all be nullified by higher courts.    .   

SF 

Sorry if I give you a negative impression on that issue.   However, this women  claimed the incident happened when - she initially claime it happened in 1994, when that tuned out to be in 1995 - but th dress she allegedly wore and could be tested for semen was only desiged and used in 1996.    She had a photo of the dress she wore went he incident happened. - but that design dress only came out in 1996 - so the date was changed by her to 1996.    There was no evidence ever of any such thing happening and the fuinder of he case of the women      However, this had nothing to do with the incident itself.    She alleged the incident first in 2019 the year before the 2020 election and Trump denied he allegations and said she probably suffer from a wish it actually happened..

She claimed he libled her when he made that statement..    That apparently was BS in 2019 and now raised its head again in 2024 - the whole saga and her judicial fees are paid for by a major sponsor of the Democratic Party - so it is just another fake court case against Trump.    Two of the other cases ae already on a judicial scrap heap and the third one by Special Council Smith is heading the same way.    That election strategy of the Democrats are not working - according to opinion polls the majority of voters think what the Democrats are busy using is not an acceptable strategy and unconstitutional.   

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Duplication

On Friday afternoon I submitted my absentee ballot for next month's U.S. presidential election. As that ballot makes its way from Halifax, Nova Scotia to a Town Clerk's office in Michigan the news of Donald Trump's latest bombast broke. This wasn't just a gaffe. It was gross. If I really wanted to, I could spend the whole weekend breaking down the social, psychological and political implications of Trump's latest sexist statement. But I won't.

I don't need to overthink this one.

We don't need to wrestle with academic theory on this.

Donald Trump is a Dirty Old Man. Period.

This certainly isn't the first offensive thing Mr. Trump has said -- and it surely won't be the last. But in my mind, it's the only evidence we need to make up our minds about this man. Language matters. The nouns and verbs we choose to use say something about who we are and how we see the world. To some degree, they must be connected to how we act in the world. They aren't merely the matters of high school English class.

"You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful -- I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p***y. You can do anything." - Donald Trump

While Trump surrogates quickly excused the language as the "locker room talk" of a 59-year-old man, I have found myself confused as to why this would be a viable excuse for anyone over the age of 15 or 16. While traditions of misogyny and harassment are terrible things to see at any age -- what's worse is hearing a major party candidate for President of the United States using the excuse of "all the other middle school boys were doing it too".

Let's not lose track of the fact we're talking about a 70 year old, thrice-married, beauty-pageant owner talking about the "bitches" he is trying to bed.

If that's not Dirty Old Man syndrome, I don't know what is.

Donald Trump's vulgar words reveal a vulgar character.

The excuse is laughable. Most men do not, in fact, speak like this. But more importantly, every single man, boy and child that does carry this sort of rhetoric forward should be confronted and held to account. It's not just "locker room talk". It's not "boys-being-boys". It's gross. It's toxic -- and it hurts everyone.

Men embracing this language are less than what they could be. They're insecure, small, and broken in some way. In wrestling with their own insecurity they find themselves lashing out to make other humans less... human. And the women confronted with these attitudes are not only left with the fallout from varying degrees of verbal, physical, and sexual assault -- they have to navigate the road to recovery while carrying all this excess baggage from weak, insecure men.

The weight of this baggage has never been more clear to me than it is today. Since the release of the Trump tape, I've done my best to avoid simply mansplaining why this is so bad. I listened to my wife. I put out an open invite for feedback from the women in my Facebook sphere.

I've been transfixed by NY Times best-selling-author and Twitter all-star Kelly Oxford's (@KellyOxford) #NotOkay timeline in which thousands of women have shared their everyday experiences with sexual assault and the regularity with which half of our population is grabbed -- as Donald Trump would say -- "by the p***y".

The one thing made abundantly clear to me through these stories is that the words of Donald Trump are not simply words attached to nothing -- floating in the ether. These are words (that matter), attached to actions (that matter), connected to women (who matter). Yes, the words speak to attitudes that Donald Trump so clearly holds. But the words also speak to actions that Donald Trump has not even begun to deny.

The truly scary words from Donald Trump's mouth deal with his celebration of non-consent. Donald Trump trumpets the fact that he can sexually assault women and get away with it because he's a "star".

When Donald Trump says: "I just kiss. I don't even wait", it is worth finishing out that thought. What doesn't Donald Trump wait for? What he's not waiting for is "CONSENT".

When Donald Trump says: "When you're a star...You can do anything..." he, again, is not waiting for CONSENT. Yes, these aren't the most lewd words used by in the exchange -- but they are the most problematic. The truly scary words from Donald Trump's mouth deal with his celebration of non-consent. Donald Trump trumpets the fact that he can sexually assault women and get away with it because he's a "star".

In a step that I certainly never imagined taking -- I'm going to encourage everyone I know to check out Teen Vogue. They've done an amazing job of compiling and contextualizing Kelly Oxford's #NotOkay submissions. As you read message after message after message...the truth is heartbreakingly clear. Donald Trump's vulgar words reveal a vulgar character -- which is connected to the sort of vulgar, criminal actions that thousands of women have bravely detailed this past weekend.

As m y absentee ballot makes its way back home to Michigan, I could not be happier that I ticked the box for Secretary Hillary Clinton. She is far from a perfect candidate and my support is certainly not starry-eyed. But a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote against one particular Dirty Old Man, named Donald J Trump. And the reality of a woman stepping into the role of "unofficial leader of the free world" is a vote against Dirty Old Men everywhere. That's a change worth voting for.

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