'Such a self-destructive person': Trump blasted as he goes on a Truth Social tirade against E Jean Carroll during defamation trial's closing arguments

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK: A decision has been rendered in the defamation suit filed by E Jean Carroll against Donald Trump. The New York jury ordered the former president to pay her $83.3 million in damages, as per The Independent.

During the proceedings, Trump reportedly published over a dozen posts on his beleaguered social media platform, Truth Social, containing slanderous statements against Carroll.

Notably, these posts were published while closing arguments were being made on Friday, January 26. Moreover, Trump had stormed out during the closing statements earlier in the day but came back for the defence summation.

The former president testified for only three minutes on Thursday, following a previous jury's finding that he was guilty of sexually abusing Carroll in a department store dressing room in 1996 and then subsequently defaming her.

Donald Trump raged on Truth Social during the closing arguments of his  E Jean Carroll defamation trial

In several posts, Carroll's claims—which a jury found to be true—were called "false accusations" by the 77-year-old Republican presidential hopeful, who continued to propagate that he had been "wrongfully accused."

"We asked for one Trial, on the E. Jean Carroll False Accusation Case, but the Judge wouldn’t give it to us, he made us have two Trials on the same Hoax, and then, on the second Trial, they were allowed to use whatever information they wanted from the first, but we weren’t allowed to use anything," claimed Trump in one post. 

He added, "As an example, the Depositions they’re using on the second Trial were taken in the first. He wouldn’t allow us to use the totally exonerating Anderson Cooper/CNN Interview on either trial, but none of it in the second. Our Legal System is in shambles!"

"This is another Biden Demanded Witch Hunt against his Political Opponent, funded and managed by Radical Left Democrats. The Courts are totally stacked against me, have never been used against a Political Opponent, like this, but in the end, we will win it all, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN," raged the ex-POTUS. 

Trump also shared footage of Carroll that has been found inadmissible in court, as per a report by Meidas Touch. The defendant's social media posts also included remarks that were critical of Judge Kaplan.

He wrote, "The only right, honest, and lawful thing that Clinton-appointed Judge Lewis Kaplan, who has so far been unable to see clearly because of his absolute hatred of Donald J. Trump (ME!), can do is to end this unAmerican injustice being done to a President of the United States, who was wrongfully accused by a woman he never met, saw, or touched (a photo line does not count!), and knows absolutely nothing about."

"I have been considered an A-List celebrity for many decades, so even decades ago, since no one knows which date or dates to refer to, because the accusing woman can’t say the day, month, season, year, or decade," asserted the ex-POTUS. 

He further claimed, "It would have been impossible for me to walk into a crowded department store (surrounded by buildings I own), right opposite the cashiers’ checkout desk, without being written about on Page Six, and every other outlet at the time. Remember, those gossip columnists were, perhaps, even more vicious and obsessed than the Internet of today.…"

It currently remains unclear who posted the messages on behalf of the former president as Judge Kaplan maintains a strict no-electronics policy in his courtroom.

Internet enraged over Donald Trump's Truth Social tirade against his accuser E Jean Carroll

Soon after Trump's Truth Social posts related to Carroll came to light, netizens wasted no time in slamming the former president over his strange behavior. 

One said, "Donald Trump needs to be held in contempt of court and jailed until he stops this nonsense. He's begging for it," while another remarked, "He doesn’t learn lessons, he thinks he’s above the law and he’s above it since there hasn’t been accountability and the GOP been covering his crimes."

A person expressed, "OMG. SMH. I have never seen such a self-destructive person in my life, but then again, I never met an adult lacking in such self-control."

"He's not going to stop until he's incarcerated," remarked someone else, and an individual added, "For every defamatory post made by trump another million dollars should be added to the damages awarded." 

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