left the courthouse flanked by her legal team. trump wasn t there for the verdict, he left the courthouse as carroll s team was presenting its closing arguments on friday. our correspondent nada tawfik was in court and sent this update. donald trump was not there when the verdict was read. teaching carol holding the hands of her lawyers it was read out. it was certainly a victory for her. remember the first defamation trial in may she was awarded $5 million. this far more, $83.3 million. this far more, $83.3 million as you said but the key piece being at $65 million in what is called punitive damages. that is the amount that the jury found was necessary to try to convince donald trump or at least to make them think twice about defaming ejean carroll again defaming e jean carroll again by defaming ejean carroll again by making public statements referred throughout this trial and really since the start of her allegations were made public that he denies wrongdoing, she s a lia
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here s the moment that carroll left the courthouse, flanked by her legal team. mr trump had been in the courthouse, but left as carroll s team was presenting its closing arguments on friday. our correspondent nada tawfik was in court and sent this update. it took thejury it took the jury less than three hours to come up with the unanimous verdict, ordering donald trump to pay ejean carroll $83.3 million in total. they decided he should pay $7.3 million in emotional harm, and $65 million in punitive damages. that is the amount they fell donald trump would have to pay in order to be convinced to stop defaming ed towel. remember, he has consistently throughout the trial and since she came forward with her claim that he raped her at a department store in the 1990s that she was a liar, that she made up her claims to try to sell her memoir. ejean carroll. and that the whole thing was a hoax. ejean carroll s lawyers use that in closing arguments, showing his campaign events, say t
awarded carroll $65 million in punitive damages and 18.3 in compensatory damages. that sum includes money for repairing her reputation and emotional harm. here s the moment that carroll left the courthouse flanked by her legal team. trump left the courthouse as carroll s team was presenting its closing arguments on friday. in a separate case last year, trump was found liable of sexually assaulting the writer in the 1990s and then defaming her. live now to annemarie mcavoy, a former us federal prosecutor in new york. thank you for speaking to us. the former president has not been convicted of any criminal charges in relation to this but he has been found civilly liable how does this award compare for cases like this? it s a huge award. i think there s no question that the jury decided to make it an example of him. the attorney for the plaintiff was trying to say you need to really punish him. and the fact that he continued to say that he didn t do it and he didn t know who t