E. Jean Carroll’s legal team alleges Trump defamed the columnist when he railed against her successful civil case during a CNN town hall.
Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the early 1990s. Trump immediately denied the accusation and alleged that Carroll was lying, crassly claiming that she was not his “type.” These words prompted a defamation suit that is still pending against the former president.
“Carroll filed this lawsuit to obtain redress for her injuries and to demonstrate that even a man as powerful as Trump can be held accountable under the law,” they wrote. In 2022, Carroll sued Trump again, making use of a new law that allowed victims of sexual abuse to pursue civil cases against their alleged attackers even if the statute of limitations had expired. Earlier this month, a Manhattan jury found the former president liable forafter deliberating for less than three hours and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages.
Even with the threat of a new defamation case hanging over him, Trump is being characteristically aggressive. In a Truth Social on Tuesday, he once again claimed that he doesn’t know Carroll, adding that he “wouldn’t want to know or touch her.”Sign Up for the Intelligencer Newsletter
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