The former president of the United States donald trump (2017-2021) has been found guilty by a jury of defame the writer E. Jean Carroll in comments he made in 2019, while he was president, for which he will have to pay compensation of 83.3 million dollars.

The jury’s verdict was read this Friday without Trump being present in the room, while Carroll did attend and embraced his lawyers. Upon leaving, she did not want to make statements to the press.

The former president, who was present on the last day of the trial but left the room before the jury’s final result was known, has turned to his social network, Truth Social, to describe the verdict as “totally ridiculous.”

For him, it is a sign that “our legal system is out of control and is being used as a political weapon.” During the two weeks of the trial, the magnate has not stopped publishing on his networks that he did not know Carroll and that the trial was a witch hunt, to such an extent that some of his comments were used as evidence by the legal team. of Carroll.

This is the second time that the journalist and her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, have won a trial against Trump. Last May, a jury convicted the former president for sexual abuse for inserting his fingers into Carroll’s vagina without consent, as well as for defamation (in other different comments) and to pay an amount of five million dollars.

On this occasion, the jury of nine members, seven men and two women, has ruled unanimouslye that the former president is guilty of the damage inflicted on Carroll in some defamatory comments carried out in July 2019 and has sentenced him to pay 18.3 million in damages and 65 million more in punitive damages, figures much higher than those that had been considered during the trial.