Former President Trump is staring down nearly $100 million in total damages to E. Jean Carroll after a jury handed the advice columnist a victory at her second trial Friday. The newest verdict orders Trump to pay $83.3 million for defaming Carroll when she came forward in 2019 accusing the then-president of sexual assault decades earlier. |
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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." |
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Columnist E. Jean Carroll hailed a jury's verdict Friday requiring former President Trump to pay her $83.3 million in damages for defamation after he repeatedly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted her at a department store in the 1990s. "This is a great victory for every woman who stands up when she's been knocked down, and a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down," Carroll said in a statement following the decision. |
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Alina Habba, a lawyer for former President Trump, said Friday she was proud to represent him, after a jury ruled in favor of columnist E. Jean Carroll in her defamation trial against the former president. "I have sat on trial after trial for months in this state, the state of New York, Attorney General Letitia James and now this. Weeks, weeks. Why? Because President Trump is leading in the polls and now we see what you get in New York," Habba said. |
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| A federal jury ordered former President Trump to pay $83.3 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll when Trump in 2019 denied the longtime advice columnist's accusation that he sexually assaulted her decades earlier. It marks 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. |
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded to the news of former President Trump and her fellow GOP competitor's verdict in his defamation case where he has been ordered to pay $83.3 million. "Donald Trump wants to be the presumptive Republican nominee and we're talking about $83 million in damages. We're not talking about fixing the border. We're not talking about tackling inflation," Haley said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. |
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Nikki Haley is facing broadening calls to drop out of the GOP primary even as she publicly signals no intention to do so ahead of South Carolina's contest next month. The head of the Republican National Committee (RNC), the Georgia Republican Party and growing numbers of GOP lawmakers are urging her to drop out, arguing she has no realistic path to the nomination against frontrunner former President Trump. |
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| The Biden administration sought to flip the script on the economy this week, touting major investments and key endorsements on the back of more surprisingly strong economic data. While new polling shows that Americans' views of economic conditions are improving, they're mostly in negative territory and a serious source of frustration for an administration that wants people to believe in an unequivocal economic success story. |
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For House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), the easy part is over. The untested GOP leader stormed into the top ranks of power last fall and spent the first three months negotiating a series of spending bargains with President Biden, all without suffering the same political blowback as his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who was booted from the Speakership for cutting very similar deals. |
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The White House on Friday said House Republicans have to choose between finding a solution or scoring political points after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a letter to colleagues that the Senate border deal is "dead on arrival." "House Republicans, they have a choice to make. They have to choose whether they want to solve a problem, actually solve a problem like the Senate is trying to do in a bipartisan way. Or, get in the way and score political points," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. |
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| OPINION | 2023 was a year of heartbreak for thousands of people who lost loved ones to overdose. It was the deadliest year on record — in the United States, more than 110,000 people died from a drug overdose. This tragedy left deep and indelible marks on communities across the country, as overdose rates rose sharply among communities of color, older adults, adolescents, and pregnant women. But 2023 was not without hope. More than 21 million Americans are currently in recovery, a number that will continue to climb with increased access to high-quality substance use disorder treatment. |
OPINION | Presidential debates can create moments that make or break candidacies. Not so much anymore. 2024 has destroyed the argument that presidential debates matter, and perhaps it's even the final nail in the coffin for this political custom. If we're indeed hearing the debate death knell, the ramifications for political discourse could be huge — and very unfortunate. |
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| At least two donor nations are joining the United States in temporarily halting funding to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians in Gaza, after the agency on Friday fired a dozen of its employees accused by Israel of participating in the Oct. 7 attacks. |
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration, eager to highlight a signature economic initiative as elections approach, is expected to award billions of dollars in subsidies to Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC, and other top semiconductor companies in coming weeks to help build new factories. |
BY DÁNICA COTO AND EVENS SANON |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Radio stations across Haiti got jammed with calls just hours after a court in Kenya blocked the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force to help fight gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. |
BY KAREN DEYOUNG, MICHAEL BIRNBAUM, ISABELLE KHURSHUDYAN AND EMILY RAUHALA |
Still smarting from last year's failed counteroffensive in Ukraine, the Biden administration is putting together a new strategy that will de-emphasize winning back territory and focus instead on helping Ukraine fend off new Russian advances while moving toward a long-term goal of strengthening its fighting force and economy. |
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