E. Jean Carroll jokes about going shopping with ‘Trump’s money’

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E. Jean Carroll shared a laugh with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow about her plans to go shopping after winning $83 million in her defamation suit against former U.S. president Donald Trump.

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When Carroll and her two lawyers, Roberta Kaplan and Shawn Crowley, appeared on her MSNBC show this week, Maddow said, “You’ve talked about using some of Trump’s money that you’re about to get to help shore up women’s rights. Do you know what that might be? What that might look like?”

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“Yes, Rachel! Yes! I have such, such great ideas for all the good I’m gonna do with this money,” Carroll replied. “First thing, Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping. We’re going to get completely new wardrobes, new shoes, a motorcycle for Crowley, a new fishing rod for Robbie. Rachel, what do you want? Penthouse? It’s yours, Rachel! Penthouse and, uh, France? You want France? You wanna go fishing in France? No? Oh, alright.”

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Crowley quickly interjected, telling viewers, “That’s a joke.”

“If me fishing in France could do something for women’s rights, I would take the hit, you know? I would obviously take one for the team,” Maddow said laughing.

But the quip may have helped Trump in his bid to return to power later this fall, according to Megyn Kelly.

“This is the kind of clip that could win Trump the election,” the SiriusXM host wrote on X.

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“She is a fraud,” another user wrote, with a third writing, “The joke is going to be on her when Trump appeals it and wins.”

Last Friday a jury found that Trump had damaged Carroll’s reputation in 2019 after she went public with her accusations that he sexually assaulted her in a book. Jurors awarded her $18 million to compensate for the personal harm she experienced, then added $65 million more to punish Trump — and stop him from continuing to go after her on social media.

A different jury concluded last May that Trump was responsible for sexually abuse and defamation after he vigorously denied Carroll’s allegations that he assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in 1996. Those jurors awarded Carroll $5 million. If both judgments stand, Trump would owe her a total of $88.3 million.

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Although too much time had passed since the alleged assault in 1996 for a criminal case to be considered against Trump for rape, his vehement denials were deemed defamatory.

Trump and his lawyers have promised to appeal.

“Absolutely ridiculous!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post calling the judgements a “political weapon.”

“I fully disagree with both verdicts,” he said, adding that he will be appealing the decision and blamed President Joe Biden for a “Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party.”

In a separate interview with Good Morning America, Carroll vowed to spend the money on something Trump “hates.”

“If it’ll cause him pain for me to give money to certain things, that’s my intent,” Carroll told GMA’s George Stephanopoulos, suggesting she would create a “fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump.”

– With files from the Associated Press

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