Editorial: Trump gets 83 million reasons to keep E. Jean Carroll's name out of his mouth.

How much does it take to get Donald Trump to keep his mouth shut? A New York jury on Friday gave him 83.3 million reasons to stop what has become a very expensive tirade against E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of sexual misconduct. $83.3 million is a lot of money to pay for diarrhea of the mouth. Is it enough? When it comes to Trump, who knows? But it should.

Carroll had accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. He denied the allegations, calling her a "liar" and suggested that she was "not my type." The Friday verdict marks the second time a New York jury as ruled against the former president, and in the earlier trial, awarded Carroll $5 million for battery and defamation. Trump appealed that verdict, and you'd think that that would have been the end of it. But, the defamations kept coming.

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The bulk of this week's verdict involved $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million in compensatory damages after the jury found that the former president acted spitefully and wantonly. His behavior in the courtroom — outbursts during testimony and storming out of the courtroom during jury instruction — didn't win friends and influence people among the 12 jurors in the civil trial who had to come up with the financial penalty.

Trump's bragging about his wealth hasn't helped him either. He once boasted during a 2022 deposition that his Mar-a-Lago estate was worth $1.5 billion and his Doral property was worth well over $2 billion. He made similar claims in his defense during his New York civil fraud trial, in which the New York Attorney General has sought to prove that Trump defrauded the state by inflating or deflating his net worth and the value of his assets whenever the change worked to his advantage. Trump's talk of wealth only suggests he can pay for costly verdicts.

We had hoped that this expensive verdict might finally deter the former president from his costly public tirades. But that hope was dashed almost immediately as Trump's initial reaction to this week's verdict was not promising:

"Absolutely ridiculous!" he posted on his Truth Social platform. "I fully disagree with both verdicts ... THIS IS NOT AMERICA."

The post included a false accusation against Democrats for the civil trial, and a promise to appeal the decision. There was no mention of the name "E. Jean Carroll".

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