After brief deliberations, a Manhattan federal jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and ordered him to pay $2 million in damages, as well as $3 million for defaming her on his social media site Truth Social when he denied it. It is very rare for social media posts to hit the high bar for defamation; Trump himself has called for libel laws to be “opened up.” Maybe he feels differently now.
[The] jury also found that Mr. Carroll proved, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Ms. Carroll was injured as a result of Trump’s publication of his denial of her accusations on his Truth Social account in October 2022.
The jury determined that Ms. Carroll had proved, by clear and convincing evidence, that Mr. Trump knew his statement was false when he said her accusation was a hoax, a legal standard known as “actual malice.”
[The New York Times]
