A U.S. federal court jury awarded $83.3 million in damages Friday to a columnist over defamatory comments made by former President Donald Trump when he was in office in 2019 in reference to the claim that he had sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.The 77-year-old front-runner in the Republican presidential nomination race described the jury's decision as "absolutely ridiculous" and said he will appeal.The columnist, Jean Carroll, claimed in a 2019 memoire and on various occasions that Trump raped her in a dressing room at a department store in New York in the mid-1990s.Trump denied the alle…READ FULL ARTICLE
