Former President Trump said Friday he plans to appeal after a jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, who had alleged he sexually assaulted her decades ago.
“Absolutely ridiculous! I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon.”
“They have taken away all First Amendment Rights,” he added. “THIS IS NOT AMERICA!”
Friday’s ruling by a jury in New York marked the second time Carroll has won damages from Trump at trial, with the new total adding to a $5 million verdict last year finding Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her over a separate comment.
Looks like my best chance at ever becoming a millionaire is to sue Trump.
I feel like I could probably trick him into defaming me somehow
The trick is to make him think you’re loyal to him first and then you can say anything to get thrown under the defamation bus
Best case, you’d get a gallon of bronzer and a few frozen steaks
That’s a gallon of bronzer and a few frozen steaks up from how I’m doing now. I’ll take it.
Those aren’t steaks. That’s shoe leather.