E. Jean Carroll said Monday on CBS News that she will “do whatever I can” to help President Joe Biden win the 2024 election.
A jury on Friday awarded former Elle magazine reporter E. Jean Carroll a whopping $83.3 million in damages in the defamation case against former President Donald Trump, according to Politico. Of this amount, $65 million is reportedly punitive damages and $18.3 million is compensatory damages.
Carroll sued Trump, accusing him of making derogatory comments about her in 2019 and of calling her a “terrible job” during a CNN town hall in May.
Carroll told CBS News that he had not heard from the Biden campaign about any possible campaign efforts against President Trump, but said he would “do whatever we can” to support Biden's re-election.
Carroll accused Trump of raping her at Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman department store in 1995 or 1996. Trump denies all charges, and she was found responsible for sexual assault and defamation. President Trump announced on social media that he would appeal the ruling. (Related article: “Election interference”: Republicans overturn verdict in Trump defamation case)
In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Carroll reportedly had a disagreement with the host over the definition of rape. transcript.
“You don't feel like a victim,” Cooper said, records state.
“I wasn't thrown to the ground and assaulted. The word 'rape' has so many sexual connotations. This wasn't sexual. It just hurt. It's just…'' Carroll is quoted as saying.
“I think most people think of rape as a violent assault. That's not the case,” Cooper reportedly responded.
“I think most people think rape is sexy,” Carroll reportedly retorted, before the host decided to take a commercial break.
“They're thinking about fantasies,” she added before the break began, according to the transcript.
she also accused According to The Hollywood Report, former CBS executive Les Moonves raped her. Moonves reportedly denied her allegations in a statement to New York Magazine.
Carroll's accusations, filed in 2019, are accused of being incredibly similar to the plot of a 2012 Law & Order episode in which a victim was raped in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, CNN report. Carol, a fan of the show, was “tickled” that her plotline happened to be so similar to her own story, but said it was just a “great” coincidence.
According to CNN, two of Carroll's friends testified that Carroll informed them of the incident immediately. The outlet concluded that their testimony served as additional evidence that her story was not fabricated years later.
