Writer E. Jean Carroll on Wednesday called her historic $5 million court victory over former President Donald Trump’s sex abuse “probably the happiest day of my life.”
“I feel fantastic!” the 79-year-old gushed on “Good Morning America” a day after a Manhattan jury found Trump, 76, liable for sexually abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room in 1996.
“Yesterday was probably the happiest day of my life,” she said of the monumental decision that could affect the 2024 election.
Carroll maintained that she had no motivation for the suit other than that she “decided to come forward and tell what happened.”
“I thought that was enough,” she stated.
“Then, he said terrible things about me. Ground my face in the dirt. It was horrible,” she said of the defamation that the former commander-in-chief was also found liable of.
Carroll said that she was “always shaken” during her three days of testimony, which capped a four-year ordeal during which she had regularly “blamed” herself for her own sex abuse.
“I was shaken quite a bit. But I felt strong because I knew I was telling the truth,” she said. “And I just stuck to it.”
She pointed to her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, as she marveled at how they were the ones to finally win a court battle over Trump despite the many accusations he has faced.
“Yesterday — despite prosecutors and special counsels and investigators piling all these legal snarls up to Trump — it was this 5-foot-3, wiley, female attorney and this elderly 79-year-old advice columnist who are finally holding Donald Trump liable,” she said with unmistakable pride.
Her attorney’s hand was “ice cold” when the jury first cleared Trump of rape, Carroll recalled. But “when that jury said yes” to the other accusations “we looked at each other, and that was the moment — it was such a wonderful, overwhelming moment.”
Kaplan, meanwhile, said that the victory should be celebrated as proof that “no one, not even a former president, not even a star from Celebrity Apprentice, is above the law.
“And Donald Trump — like all of us — is not above the law.”
She insisted that Trump — who is running again for the White House in 2024 — has “absolutely zero” grounds for appeal.
She called New York Judge Lewis Kaplan — whom Trump accused of being biased and part of the latest witch hunt against him — “one of the most respected, fairest judges.”
“He gave [Trump’s legal team] more process than even anyone else ever gets,” said the attorney, who is not a relative of the jurist.
“He gave Donald Trump multiple chances to come to that courtroom and testify. He refused to do so — he has no appeal,” she said firmly.
Carroll, meanwhile, said she has no further plans other than to “go throw the ball for my dog.”
Trump spent much of Tuesday night denouncing the decision, claiming he was a victim of a judge who “hated President Donald J. Trump more than is humanly possible.
“He is a terrible person, completely biased, and should have RECUSED himself when asked to do so. He quickly refused!” complained Trump, who has not been criminally charged for attacking Carroll.
“This case should never have been allowed to be tried in this completely partisan venue, perhaps the worst for me in the Nation! The whole Rigged Hoax is yet another TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE, a continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt of all time!!!”
He continued the rant early Wednesday with yet another all-caps conspiracy on his Truth Social.
“THIS WITCH HUNT IS ALL ABOUT ELECTION INTERFERENCE, BUT SO FAR IT SEEMS TO BE BACKFIRING ON THE RADICAL LEFT MISFITS WHO CAN’T WIN AN ELECTION WITHOUT CHEATING!”