Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump’s Defamation Case Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving

For E. Jean Carroll, the former president may come to resemble a lucrative annuity.

January 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

Show me the money.
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Alina Habba, one of Donald Trump’s many lawyers, took to social media last Friday evening shortly after a New York jury ordered her client to pay $83.3 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll for repeated defamation.

“This is far from over,” Habba noted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “We are just getting started.”