- Carroll, 80, said the elation was ‘almost painful’ after Friday’s bombshell verdict
- Columnist said she doesn’t want to ‘waste money’, but already has ‘ideas’ for how she will spend the $83million in damages
E. Jean Carroll wants to give the $83million in damages she’s set to receive from Donald Trump to a cause ‘he hates’ and will ’cause him pain’.
The columnist, 80, said the elation she felt was ‘almost painful’ when a Manhattan jury awarded her the staggering sum on Friday for the former president defaming her and calling her a liar in 2019 when she accused him of sexual assault.
She is now considering setting up a fund for women ‘sexually assaulted’ by Trump and has threatened to bring another legal case if he defames her online again.
Carroll told Good Morning America she burst into tears when she ‘exchanged smiles’ with the jury as she walked out of the courtroom.
It was the second time a New York jury has ruled in her favor against Trump in a case stemming from her allegations he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.
‘The elation was so great on Friday,’ she said alongside her lawyer Roberta Kaplan. ‘It filled me up. It was almost painful.
‘Today I’m very happy because I’m calm enough to realize what she (Kaplan) did.’
Carroll is now considering what ‘great things’ she wants to do with the settlement, including donating to a cause for ‘women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump’.
‘I don’t want to waste money,’ Carroll said when asked what she was going to do with the money.
‘I do have an idea. I’d like to give the money to something Donald Trump hates. That will cause him pain for something to give money to certain things.
‘Perhaps a fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump.’
Trump called the Friday verdict ‘ridiculous’ as he returned to the campaign trail in Nevada.
The Republican frontrunner in the presidential race wasn’t in court when the verdict was read out.