(TRENDING POLITICS) – A Manhattan jury has ordered former President Donald J. Trump to pay a staggering $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll in a defamation lawsuit. The verdict on Friday afternoon, which comes as a significant blow to Trump, has elicited a fiery response from the former President, who took to social media to express his vehement disagreement and intention to appeal.
Carroll, a former magazine columnist, filed the lawsuit following her 2019 allegations that Trump had raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, a claim Trump has persistently denied. Trump’s reaction on Truth Social was immediate and unreserved.
He labeled the jury’s verdict as “absolutely ridiculous,” denouncing it as part of a “Biden Directed Witch Hunt” against him and the Republican Party. In his fiery post, Trump condemned what he perceived as a politically motivated abuse of the legal system, claiming it has stripped away fundamental First Amendment rights.
