I WILL GIVE TRUMP €77 TO CAUSES HE HATES
Sex victim’s compo pledge
DONALD Trump’s sexual abuse victim has vowed to spend the €77million he owes her on causes he hates.
Agony aunt E Jean Carroll was awarded $83.3m (€76.9m) by a New York jury after finding the former president repeatedly defamed her when denying his assault on her.
Yesterday, the writer gave her first interview since winning her civil case.
Talking to George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America about what she planned to do with her payout, she said: “I do have an idea.
“I’d like to give the money to something Donald Trump hates. That will cause him pain for something to give money to certain things.
“Perhaps a fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump.”
After a two-week trial, a jury took less than three hours to return a verdict that Trump should pay damages for two defamatory statements made by the former pres
ident in 2019 after she alleged he sexually assaulted her in 1996.
A separate jury last year found that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll and defamed her, awarding her €4.63m.
Trump has repeatedly denied the allegation and attended five days of the defamation trial, testifying to double down on his claims. He has vowed to appeal against the verdict.
Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan had told the jury: “This case is about punishing Donald Trump for what he’s done and continues to do. This trial is about getting him to stop.”
Carroll, 80, was awarded €6.6m for emotional harm, €10m for harm to her reputation and €60m in punitive damages.
Asked what it felt like sitting feet away from the former president in the courtroom, she told the American TV show: “It was like he was like nothing, like an emperor without clothes.”
She added: “All my terror leading up to it.. and there he is. He’s just something in a suit.”
A man who stole and leaked Donald Trump’s tax records has been jailed for five years. Internal Revenue Service contractor Charles Littlejohn, 38, had pleaded guilty in October.