CNN —The $83.3 million verdict handed down in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against former President Donald Trump on Friday is far more than a judgment against Trump.
In May, a Manhattan federal jury found Trump sexually abused Carroll in 1996.
Legally, the award is an attempt to quantify the damages Trump wreaked on Carroll’s reputation, her sense of self and her life.
I think most humans, including everyone on that jury, recognize that what Trump took from Carroll can’t be quantified.
It just hurt.”But if Carroll’s story wasn’t easily slotted onto some universally understood, objective spectrum of sexual violence, that’s because there is no objective spectrum of sexual violence.
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