Trump Loses Important Ruling.. He Must Pay $5 Million

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan announced today, Wednesday, that the second trial in the defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll against former U.S. President Donald Trump will be limited to determining the amount of damages only, marking a setback for the former president. He clarified that the jury's ruling issued in May, awarding Carroll $5 million after Trump defamed her in October 2022, confirmed that Trump made his statements in 2019 with "actual malice," leaving only the issue of the amount of damages he must pay. Carroll accused Trump of defaming her when he denied in June 2019 that he had raped her in a department store dressing room in Manhattan in the mid-1990s.