E. Jean Carroll, the former Elle magazine columnist who won an $83.3 million defamation judgment against President Donald Trump, says she plans to use the money to infuriate him, specifically by donating it to causes he opposes, such as reproductive rights.

In an appearance Tuesday on former MSNBC host Katie Phang’s YouTube show, Carroll outlined how she hopes to weaponize the payout as a form of symbolic revenge.

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“I know my own pleasures, and that doesn’t involve buying things,” Carroll said. “Where my pleasure comes is making him so pissed off he can’t think. We need to prick his little balloon constantly, and one of the ways to do that is to give his money to women’s reproductive rights.”

Phang, reacting with a laugh, replied, “Oh, hell yeah.”

Carroll elaborated that she intends to support voting rights efforts and “bind up the wounds of democracy, which [Trump] is destroying by the very instant that we’re sitting here.” She also mocked Trump’s reported financial success: “Can you imagine how angry he takes this? Well, he made $600 million last year on Bitcoin.”

Phang responded, “Grifting. Grifting.”

Carroll went further, aiming for cryptocurrency. “As Robbie [Kaplan, her attorney,] says, ‘Do you know anybody except criminals who make money on Bitcoin?’ Do we? We don’t,” she said. “It’s just so delicious thinking about how pissed off he’ll be. How angry that his own personal money is going to help women. Ah, heaven. Heaven. It’s the revenge that we all love.”

Carroll has not yet received the $83.3 million that was awarded to her by a jury in January 2024. That sum followed a previous $5 million judgment in a separate civil case in May 2023, in which Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation stemming from her allegations that he attacked her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

The second case centered on Trump’s repeated denials, including calling Carroll’s claims “fake” and describing her as a “whack job” during a CNN town hall just one day after the first verdict.

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Trump has repeatedly denied all allegations and denounced both judgments as politically motivated.

“Absolutely ridiculous!” he wrote in a January 2024 Truth Social post. “I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party. Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon. They have taken away all First Amendment Rights. THIS IS NOT AMERICA!”