Former President Trump said Friday he plans to appeal after a jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, who had alleged he sexually assaulted her decades ago.

ā€œAbsolutely ridiculous! I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party,ā€ Trump wrote on Truth Social. ā€œOur Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon.ā€

ā€œThey have taken away all First Amendment Rights,ā€ he added. ā€œTHIS IS NOT AMERICA!ā€

Fridayā€™s ruling by a jury in New York marked the second time Carroll has won damages from Trump at trial, with the new total adding to a $5 million verdict last year finding Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her over a separate comment.

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    $83MM paid for by the hordes of morons that eat his shit daily. He wonā€™t spend a penny.

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      10 months ago

      less money for his other cases and even less for the campaign. The morons arenā€™t a bottomless pit of money

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        Thereā€™s a fucking idiot born every few seconds, and at the same pace thereā€™s a (so far) boundless font of working-class hopium cash willing to throw their pension in the proverbial fountain for the promise of fucking over anyone who isnā€™t them. šŸ¤¦šŸ¼ā€ā™‚ļø

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      If it pulls money from his campaign (which is likely), I am here with the shaudenfreude and popcorn šŸæ