As costly as writer E. Jean Carroll’s first defamation lawsuit was for former President Donald Trump, her second one brought a much larger judgement. Jurors in the first case awarded the former Elle Magazine columnist $5 million, but on Friday afternoon, January 26, the news broke that jurors in the second case had decided to award her $83.3 million in damages. That includes $18.3 in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages. In an op-ed published by MSNBC on January 29, journalist Molly Jong-Fast argues that the importance of the $83.3 million award goes way beyond justice for …