E. Jean Carroll Adds Trump’s Post-verdict Remarks To Defamation Case, Seeks At Least $10M

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    FILE - E. Jean Carroll arrives to a courthouse in New York, Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Columnist Carroll, who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former President Donald Trump, filed an amended lawsuit against him on Monday, May 22, 2023, seeking to hold him liable for remarks he made after the verdict. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

    NEW YORK (AP) — E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former President Donald Trump, is seeking at least $10 million more in a new court filing Monday that seeks to hold him liable for remarks he made after the verdict.

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    An amended lawsuit seeking the $10 million in compensatory damages — and more in punitive damages — was filed in Manhattan by lawyers for Carroll, who say remarks by Trump in response to her rape allegations so spoiled her reputation that she lost her longtime job as an Elle magazine advice columnist.

    They said in the rewritten lawsuit that he “doubled down” on derogatory remarks about Carroll at a cable television appearance a day after the verdict.

    “Trump’s defamatory statements post-verdict show the depth of his malice toward Carroll since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will, or spite,” the lawyers wrote. “This conduct supports a very substantial punitive damages award in Carroll’s favor both to punish Trump, to deter him from engaging in further defamation, and to deter others from doing the same.”

    A nine-person jury two weeks ago decided Trump had sexually abused Carroll at an upscale Manhattan department store in early spring 1996.

    Carroll, who testified during the trial, first revealed in a 2019 book her claims that Trump raped her in a dressing room. The jury decided Carroll hadn’t proved she had been raped, but found that Trump had sexually abused her.

    Joe Tacopina, a Trump lawyer, declined to comment on the new claims.

    The lawyers filed the new claims in amending a defamation lawsuit that was put on hold as an appeals court was deciding whether Trump could be held liable for remarks he made in 2019 while he was still president. The U.S. Justice Department has supported his lawyers’ claims that the United States should be substituted as the defendant.

    In the new claim, Carroll’s lawyers said Trump, “undeterred by the jury’s verdict, persisted in maliciously defaming Carroll yet again” the next day during a “town hall” event hosted by CNN.

    “He doubled down on his prior defamatory statements, asserting to an audience all too ready to cheer him on that ‘I never met this woman. I never saw this woman,’ that he did not sexually assault Carroll, and that her account — which had just been validated by a jury of Trump’s peers one day before — was a ‘fake,’ ‘made up story’ invented by a ‘whack job.’ Those statements resulted in enthusiastic cheers and applause from the audience on live TV,” the lawyers wrote.


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    Liam K. Nuj
    Liam K. Nuj
    10 months ago

    It’s well known that I’m far from being a Trump fan, but I think for this Ms. Carroll this might end up being a case of
    Tifasta meruba, lo tifasta klal.

    Yatzmach
    Yatzmach
    10 months ago

    So she accuses him of rape, can’t prove it, claims happened 30 years ago but only decided to go public now.. He says never happened and never even met this crackpot. Who maligned whom? And please; an NYC jury verdict against Trump does not prove a thing! It’s surprising he’s not been found guilty yet for being the unobomber and for 9/11.

    m shain
    m shain
    10 months ago

    NOT THAT I THINK HER CASE OF ABUSE / BUT GOOD FOR HER MAYBE THAT IDIOT WILL SHUT HIS STUPID MOUTH

    Paul Near Philadelphia
    Paul Near Philadelphia
    10 months ago

    President Trump would have fewer legal issues if he simply stop talking about this lady.

    Oz
    Oz
    10 months ago

    Maga2024
    Fjb

    Sheker plop
    Sheker plop
    10 months ago

    You lying phony hypocrites– You don’t believe your lovely politicians use cusswords in private? What good is it that Obama, the gentleman, began the destruction of our country, morals and values ? Trump is a degenerate ? That’s not your beef with him. You just hate him ! The degenerate abuse that the nice talking Democrats heaped on him is murder ! You don’t care about his morals, you hate him for other reasons.

    Schemerel
    Schemerel
    10 months ago

    I despise Trump but this is Sedom like justice. Someone sues him for $5 million dollars for something that wasn’t proven he did , he is then ASKED on the air for his opinion about it, He responds the way most people denying such claims would and then he gets sued again? And why sue Trump alone? What did the CNN anchor think he was going to say? What COULD he have said that didn’t involve calling his accuser a lair and potentially opening himself up to another lawsuit?