Awkward moment E. Jean Carroll says she is going to buy a ‘new wardrobe and new shoes’ when asked by Rachel Maddow what she will do for women’s rights with $83m won from Trump… to the embarrassment of her lawyer

E. Jean Carroll had to be restrained by her lawyer as she gleefully detailed how she plans to spend her $83.3 million defamation award on Donald Trump.

The author had promised to help other victims with her multi-million dollar payout, but had a more worldly wish list when questioned by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC.

“First of all, Rachel, you and I are going shopping,” she said. ‘We’re going to get completely new wardrobes, new shoes, what do you want? Penthouse? It’s yours Rachel!’ “That’s a joke,” attorney Shawn Crowley laughed nervously as he sat next to her.

“Rachel, what do you want? Penthouse? It’s yours Rachel!’ Carroll told host Rachel Maddow

The former president has urged an appeal against Friday’s ruling, which he called “absolutely ridiculous.”

The Republican Party’s presidential candidate has insisted he will appeal Friday’s award, which he called “absolutely ridiculous.”

“They took away all First Amendment rights,” he wrote on Truth Social, “THIS IS NOT AMERICA!”

A Manhattan jury agreed that the former president defamed the former Elle Magazine columnist when he called her a “whack job” with a “made-up story” after an earlier court found he sexually assaulted her in 1996 the dressing room of a department store. .

He claimed he had never met her and consistently said she wasn’t his “type.”

But the jury concluded that Trump acted out of “hatred, ill will or spite” when he made public statements denying Carroll’s allegations, including calling them “fiction.”

And it ordered him to hand over $7.3 million for “emotional damages” to Carroll, $11 million for “reputational damage” and as much as $65 million in “punitive damages.”

On Sunday, she told ABC’s Good Morning America that she plans to spend the money on “something that Donald Trump hates.”

“If it hurts him when I give money to certain things, that’s my intention,” she added, suggesting she would set up a “fund for the women sexually assaulted by Donald Trump.”

E. Jean Carroll, in white, is seen leaving the courthouse in Manhattan on Friday evening

Trump walked out of the courtroom on Friday (alongside Habba in blue) at the start of the closing arguments

And she described him as ‘nothing’ as she recalled seeing him in court for the first time since the assault almost three decades earlier.

“He’s like a walrus snorting, like a rhino waving his hands, he’s not there, that was the surprising thing for me,” she said.

“I was terrified, I was just a bag of sweating blood cells as we prepared for the trial, and three or four days before the trial I had a real breakdown,” she added.

‘I lost my ability to speak and I couldn’t go on, I was so scared.

Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba said she was “proud” to defend the former president, who entered the legal system after E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million verdict.

‘But strangely enough I looked outside and he was nothing.

‘He was a phantom. It was the people around him who gave him power, he himself was nothing.

‘It was an astonishing discovery for me; we don’t have to be afraid of him.’

Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba was herself threatened with prison during the trial after clashing with Judge Lewis Kaplan, saying the fact that the judge had worked at the same law firm in the 1990s as Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan, no relation, was an “insane conflict of interest’.

“Don’t get it twisted,” Habba told reporters outside the court.

“We see a violation of our justice system, ladies and gentlemen.”

The ex-president is said to have access to $294 million in cash, or cash equivalents, in his most recent financial statements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021.

But a judge’s ruling is expected soon in his ongoing civil case against corporate fraud for allegedly misrepresenting the values ​​of his company assets, for which prosecutors have sought a $370 million fine.

Trump overturned the verdict minutes after the jury hit him with $83.3 million in damages

Carroll, 80, was full of praise for her two lawyers as they appeared alongside her yesterday, despite seeking only a third of what the jury awarded.

“We planted our flag,” she said.

“We have declared that things will be different, that there will be a new way of working in this country thanks to this indestructible team of lawyers.

“I think this bodes well for the future.”