E. Jean Carroll on May 9 was awarded $5 million by a federal jury in New York. It was found that -former President Donald Trump had defamed Carroll when he denied her accusation that he had raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
The jury awarded her about $2 million on her sexual battery claim and roughly $3 million for defamation.Trump, who has denied the accusation, filed to appeal the verdict — which isn’t much of a surprise.
It is more surprising that Carroll and her attorney, Robbie Kaplan, aren’t content to simply bank the $5 million while pursuing further legal action against the former president based on similar grounds behind closed doors.
Instead, Carroll and Kaplan appeared Monday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” one of the homes of the “Russia-collusion” hoax during the Trump presidency.
And that kind of publicity just gives more time for the American public to consider Carroll’s case — particularly posts she published on Facebook years after the alleged assault.
As the conservative website Twitchy noted last week, Carroll not only called herself a “massive” fan of Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice” in a 2012 post, but in another tweet from the same year, she posed the question: “Would you have sex with Donald Trump for $17,000? (Even if you could A) Give the money to Charity? B) Close your eyes? And he’s not allowed to speak?)”
The jury deliberated for all of three hours, according to NBC News — about the same as the jury deliberations in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial before Simpson was acquitted in 1996.
This screen shot of E Jean Carroll Facebook message is starting to circulate. Interesting timing of it.
I cant confirm or deny it but I found the timing odd that it started its rounds…
IF TRUE, She asked if you would have *** with Donald Trump for $17,000.
I watch patterns and… pic.twitter.com/thSsDBExeI— Kagens Looking Glass (@KagensNews) May 9, 2023
