Former Elle writer says $83.3m defamation ruling shows Trump – who she compared to ‘a walrus snorting’ – ‘can be knocked down’
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E Jean Carroll says the $83.3m awarded to her in her defamation case against Donald Trump shows “we don’t need to be afraid” of the former president.
“It was an astonishing discovery for me – he’s nothing,” Carroll said Monday night on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show. Comparing Trump to “a walrus snorting” and “a rhino flopping his hands,” the former Elle magazine columnist added: “He can be knocked down.”