After only several hours of deliberations, a federal jury in New York returned its damages verdict against former President Donald Trump, ordering him to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages for defaming her. The case stems from Trump’s defamatory comments about Carroll after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. NBC News’ senior legal correspondent Laura Jarrett reports on the verdict and Trump’s reaction.
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