Katie Couric Instagram – 🚨 A Manhattan jury on Friday ordered former President Donald J. Trump to pay $83.3 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her in social media posts, news conferences and even on the campaign trail ever since she first accused him in 2019 of raping her in a department store dressing room decades earlier. Per @nytimes reporting, the award included $65 million in punitive damages, which the nine-member jury assessed after finding Mr. Trump, 77, had acted maliciously after Ms. Carroll’s lawyers pointed to Mr. Trump’s persisting attacks on her, both from the White House and after leaving office. Ms. Carroll, 80, testified that his repeated taunts and lashing out had mobilized many of his supporters, leading to an onslaught of attacks on social media and in her email inbox that frightened her and “shattered” her reputation as a well-regarded advice columnist for Elle magazine. “I was attacked on Twitter,” Ms. Carroll told the jury. “I was attacked on Facebook. I was living in a new universe.” It is the second time Mr. Trump has been ordered to pay Ms. Carroll damages in less than a year. In May, a different Manhattan jury awarded her $5 million after finding Mr. Trump liable for sexually abusing her in the dressing-room assault in the mid-1990s, and for defaming her in post on his Truth Social website in October 2022, in which he called her accusation “a complete con job” and “a Hoax and a lie.”