ANALYSIS: A Federal Jury Has Awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million in Her Second Defamation Trial Against Donald Trump. What Happens Now?

We know from a federal court that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll—and has since continued to abuse and defame her. But a just-awarded jury verdict follows a case far stranger than many realize.

At 5:15 PM ET on January 26, 2024, just minutes after a federal jury awarded journalist E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in her second Defamation trial against Donald Trump—the former president who had previously been found by a federal court to have raped Carroll and ordered to pay her $5 million in compensation for that and his subsequent Defamation of h…