Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll for defamation

MAIMI — Donald Trump has sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation immediately after a jury discovered he sexually abused the previous journal columnist and defamed her.

In a counter assert submitted Tuesday night, Trump alleges that Carroll defamed him when she appeared on CNN the early morning just after the jury awarded her $5 million in damages. Carroll was requested about the verdict acquiring Trump sexually abused Carroll but did not rape her as she alleged. Carroll mentioned, “Oh, of course he did.”

In response to the new declare, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan explained in a statement, “Donald Trump again argues, contrary to equally logic and reality, that he was exonerated by a jury that located that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.”

She added, “Trump’s filing is as a result absolutely nothing additional than his most current effort to delay accountability for what a jury has previously found to be his defamation of E. Jean Carroll. But whether he likes it or not, that accountability is coming very shortly.

The counter assert is the most recent legal salvo in a multi-yr authorized battle involving Trump and Carroll. Carroll very first sued Trump for defamation in 2019 soon after he denied her allegation that he raped her in the mid-1990s in the dressing home of Bergdorf Goodman. Trump claimed he didn’t know Carroll and that she wasn’t his variety.

She sued him all over again past year below a New York regulation that allowed a one particular-calendar year window for civil lawsuits for survivors of sexual assault no subject when they occurred. Trump has moved for a new demo.

The 2019 defamation lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial up coming year, whilst there are nonetheless a number of lawful concerns outstanding. Carroll is trying to find a lot more than $10 million in damages in that circumstance in element mainly because Trump repeated statements the jury uncovered to be defamatory soon after the verdict on social media and at a CNN city hall.