Trump’s little night of success in the New Hampshire primaries didn’t sustain him long, to be certain, as just a few days later the scandal-plagued former president lost the biggest chunk of his ass to date after a jury ordered him to pay a staggering $83.3 million to his rape victim, E. Jean Carroll, in defamation damages.
Carroll went public with rape allegations against the now-former president back in 2019, alleging that Donald Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. As soon as those allegations hit the media cycle, Trump did what Trump does best and immediately began to insult, disparage, and attempt to discredit his victim, ultimately saying some of the most vile things we’ve ever heard come out of his mouth about Carroll, including a claim that he couldn’t have possibly raped her because she’s “not his type.”
This blatant defamation carried on for years, even during and after the civil suit Carroll filed and won against Trump, which found the former president formally liable for raping her decades ago, and awarded her $5 million as a result.
The insults kept flying and eventually earned Trump a second lawsuit from his victim, this time for the wild defamation he continued to publicly partake in — even during the defamation trial.
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Carroll and her legal team were seeking $10 million in damages from the former president. However, the jury in the defamation case did one better and ordered Donald J. Trump to pay his victim a staggering $83.3 million — all because he just couldn’t keep his damn mouth shut.
Following her massive civil court win against her rapist, Carroll sat for an early morning interview with CNN today, where she talked about her experience coming face to face with her former presidential assaulter in the courtroom, who she ultimately described as an “emperor with no clothes” who truly has no power left to his name.
Accompanied in the interview by her attorney, Robbie Kaplan, Carroll admitted that she was initially nervous to face Donald Trump in the courtroom, but quickly came to realize that the former president is “nothing.”
“There he was, and he was nothing,” E. Jean Carroll told CNN hosts Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly this morning. “Just, no power. he had — he was zero. That was, I was flabbergasted and from then on we just sailed through.”
When asked if she “made eye contact” with her assaulter during the trial, Carroll answered, “Many times,” but went on to add, “He’s an emperor without clothes. it’s like looking at nothing. It was like… nothing.”
“I had been prepared for the worst force, you know, on the Earth today, the most powerful, the most effective, the most money, the richest, the most, you know —— and there he is, he’s nothing,” Carroll explained. “It’s just the people around him who give him the power; it’s the emperor without clothes.”
I can all but guarantee you, this hurt Trump’s ego far worse than that $83.3 million ever could.
Watch the CNN interview here:
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