Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll: Civil Trial and Self-Restraint

So much for “sticks and stones.” Words, apparently, can be 16 times more damaging than even sexual assault.

If you have been following Andrew McCarthy’s stellar coverage of the E. Jean Carroll civil trials, you know that the most recent, whopping $83.3 million verdict was about defamation only. In the previous trial — which had considered Carroll’s alleged sexual abuse as well as defamation by the former president — the jury had awarded Carroll only $5 million.

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So much for “sticks and stones.” Words, apparently, can be 16 times more damaging than even sexual assault.

If you have been following Andrew McCarthy’s stellar coverage of the E. Jean Carroll civil trials, you know that the most recent, whopping $83.3 million verdict was about defamation only. In the previous trial — which had considered Carroll’s alleged sexual abuse as well as defamation by the former president — the jury had awarded Carroll only $5 million.