The writer, who accused former President Donald Trump of sexual assault, was awarded $83.3 million in damages last week for defamatory statements.
E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused former President Donald Trump of sexual assault and was on Friday for defamatory statements, says she believes the jury was sending a message with their verdict.
« I think they said ‘enough,' » Carroll said in an interview on « CBS Mornings » on Monday. « Enough saying horrible, slimy, terrible things about me. »
Trump has vowed to appeal the decision by a , which awarded Carroll $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million in compensatory damages for defamatory statements made after Carroll accused Trump in 2019 of sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room decades earlier. When Trump denied the allegations, calling her a « whack job » and claiming they had never met, Carroll sued him.
