Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll has been ripped apart online for saying she would use the money she was awarded from her lawsuit against the former president to fund a new wardrobe.
The columnist appeared on “The Rachel Maddow Show” Monday night to talk about her victory in court last week, when the MSNBC host asked her about the $83.3 million award.
“You’ve talked about using some of Trump’s money you’re about to get to shore up women’s rights,” Maddow pressed. “Do you know what that might be, what that might look like?”
Carroll instantly replied that she has “such big, great ideas for all the good I’m gonna do with all this money.”
“First thing Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping,” she said gleefully, as Maddow and her attorneys started laughing. “We’re going to get completely new wardrobes, new shoes.
“What do you want? Penthouse? It’s yours Rachel,” she joked. “You want France? You want to go fishing in France?”
Her lawyer Shawn Crowley eventually had to interrupt her, insisting to Maddow, “That’s a joke.”
The cringe-worthy exchange came just one day after Carroll vowed to spend the money on “something Donald Trump hates,” and suggested she would create a “fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump” on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Carroll is now being slammed online for her “vile” response to Maddow’s question.
“Talk to a real rape victim,” one X user wrote. “They never laugh about anything regarding the rape or conviction.
“This is vile @MSNBC.”
Another woman said she is a “real rape victim and have never laughed about rape.
“I can’t even watch TV shows with rape scenes,” the social media user wrote. “She is a fraud.”
Another woman said she is a “real rape victim and have never laughed about rape.
A Trump supporter also suggested, “The joke is going to be on her when Trump appeals it and wins.”
A federal judge had already found Trump liable for defaming Carroll before the trial began earlier this month, leaving jurors to only decide how much damages, if any, Trump must pay.
In its decision on Friday, the jury ordered Trump to pay $65 million to punish him for acting “out of hatred, ill will, or spite” by claiming to have “never met” Carroll — after jurors last May found him liable for abusing the writer inside a Bergdorf Goodman in 1996.
The ex-president was also ordered to pay $11 million to help Carroll rebuild her reputation after he claimed in June 2019 that the “Ask E Jean” columnist was a “whack job” who should “pay dearly” for accusing him of sexual assault.
He must also pay $7.3 million to compensate Carroll for the pain and suffering she has dealt with after receiving a deluge of death threats in the wake of Trump’s rebukes.
Almost immediately after the verdict came down, the Republican presidential frontrunner vowed to appeal it.
“They have taken away all First Amendment Rights,” he wrote in a Truth Social post. “THIS IS NOT AMERICA.”