How Much Will It Take to Stop Trump From Smearing E. Jean Carroll?

The nine New Yorkers on the federal jury hearing E. Jean Carroll’s latest defamation case against Donald Trump have a big question ahead of them in the coming days: How much will they have to punish a billionaire like Trump to stop him from continuing to insult the journalist who accused him of rape?

The former president commands a massive real estate portfolio, still proudly declares himself a billionaire, and is sustained by a political war chest that he uses for legal fees. That’s what jurors will contend with when figuring out how to correct his increasingly hostile behavior—if they even can.

Carroll, the longtime magazine advice columnist, already won her first trial last year, when a separate jury concluded Trump attacked her at a department store in the mid-1990s and forced his fingers inside of her against her will—a verdict that cost him $5 million.

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