'The former president was found to be in violation of a previous ruling'
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00:00 E. Jean Carroll leaves a New York court after it awarded her $83.3 million in a defamation suit against Donald Trump.
00:08 The former president was found to be in violation of a previous ruling that judged him to have defamed the journalist
00:15 and that he had continued to libel her.
00:17 On one day he had made 40 derisive posts about her on his social media platform.
00:23 The jury looked at the facts and believed E. Jean Carroll and they were not going to let Donald Trump get away with basically ignoring that verdict and continuing to inflict harm on her.
00:39 Trump stormed out of the court as Carroll's lawyers were reading their closing arguments.
00:45 His own lawyer, whom the judge had threatened with jail for contempt during the trial, railed against the court for not allowing her to summon items that her team had failed to enter as evidence.
00:56 There was no proof and I couldn't prove that she didn't bring in the dress. There was no DNA. There was no expert. My experts were denied. Two of them, two of them were denied to come in.
01:12 Donald Trump decried a witch hunt on social media and vowed to appeal, suggesting that the plaintiff in this case will have to wait some time to get any of the sum awarded her.