Damages of $83.3m for repeatedly libelling E Jean Carroll have actually silenced former president – for now
How much money would it take to stop you saying something out loud that you really wanted to say? The question is moot for most of us, but for Donald Trump it is, we know, a tried and tested principle, the answer to which lies somewhere north of $5m and south – on the evidence of the weekend – of $83.3m. That is the combined amount of compensatory and punitive damages sanctioned against the former president by a jury in New York on Friday, for repeatedly libelling E Jean Carroll, including one instance last year when he libelled her on live television the day after losing the first libel case, with its $5m verdict.
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