Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll for defamation

FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT TONIGHT JOHN. WELL, ED, HE CALLS THE VERDICT A DISGRACE AND PART OF A WITCH HUNT. THE CASE DATES BACK TO THE MID 1990S AND TODAY THE JURY SIDED WITH HIS ACCUSER. THEY’RE VERY HAPPY. AND CAROL’S ATTORNEY SAYING THEY’RE VERY HAPPY AS THEY WALK OUT OF THE COURTHOUSE CAROL, HERSELF SMILING AS THEY WALK AWAY AFTER THE EMOTIONAL TRIAL. AND IT’S ARGUABLE HERE THAT IT’S THE FIRST TIME THAT THE PRESIDENT IS BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE IN ANY COURTROOM SETTING OR THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION FOR SOMETHING THAT HE SAID THAT WAS UNTRUE. THE JURY TOOK LESS THAN THREE HOURS TO CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE FINDING FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP LIABLE OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND DEFAMATION, BUT NOT LIABLE FOR RAPE. TRUMP DID NOT TESTIFY DURING THE TRIAL, BUT CARROLL’S LAWYERS SEIZED ON TRUMP’S OWN RECORDED WORDS. SHE’S NOT MY TYPE. IN A DEPOSITION VIDEO AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA, HE SAID EUGENE CARROLL WAS, QUOTE, NOT MY TYPE, BUT THEN MISTOOK A PHOTO OF CARROLL FOR HIS SECOND WIFE, MARLA MAPLES. YOU’RE SAYING MARLO’S IN THIS PHOTO? THAT’S MARLA? YEAH, THAT’S. THAT’S MY WIFE. WHICH ONE ARE YOU POINTING TO? YOU KNOW, HERE, CAROL, I O PERSON YOU JUST POINTED TO WAS IAN CARROLL. AFTER THE VERDICT, TRUMP POSTED, I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THE VERDICT IS A DISGRACE. A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME. BUT THE JURY DID NOT AGREE WHICH NEWSCENTER 5 LEGAL ANALYST GREG HENNING SAYS SENDS A CLEAR MESSAGE WHEN THE PRESIDENT, THROUGH HIS DEPOSITIONS OR THROUGH HIS DEFENSE STRATEGY, DENIES OVER AND OVER AGAIN THESE CLAIMS, THE STRAIGHT UP DENIAL AND ACCUSATION THAT THE PERSON WHO’S MAKING THE CLAIM IS LYING IS NOT GOING TO WORK. NOW, TRUMP DID NOT TESTIFY IN THIS CASE. AND BECAUSE THIS WAS A CIVIL CASE, HE DOES NOT FACE ANY TIME BEHIND BARS. LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM, JOHN

Donald Trump has sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation after a jury found he sexually abused the former magazine columnist and defamed her.In a counter claim filed Tuesday night, Trump alleges that Carroll defamed him when she appeared on CNN the morning after the jury awarded her $5 million in damages. Carroll was asked about the verdict finding Trump sexually abused Carroll but did not rape her as she alleged. Carroll said, “Oh, yes he did.”In response to the new claim, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said in a statement, “Donald Trump again argues, contrary to both logic and fact, that he was exonerated by a jury that found that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.”She added, “Trump’s filing is thus nothing more than his latest effort to delay accountability for what a jury has already found to be his defamation of E. Jean Carroll. But whether he likes it or not, that accountability is coming very soon.Video below: How key piece of Trump deposition likely led jury to find him liable of sexual abuseThe counter claim is the latest legal salvo in a multi-year legal battle between Trump and Carroll. Carroll first sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he denied her allegation that he raped her in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman. Trump said he didn’t know Carroll and that she wasn’t his type.She sued him again last year under a New York law that allowed a one-year window for civil lawsuits for survivors of sexual assault no matter when they occurred. Trump has moved for a new trial.The 2019 defamation lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial next year, although there are still several legal issues outstanding. Carroll is seeking more than $10 million in damages in that case in part because Trump repeated statements the jury found to be defamatory after the verdict on social media and at a CNN town hall.

Donald Trump has sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation after a jury found he sexually abused the former magazine columnist and defamed her.

In a counter claim filed Tuesday night, Trump alleges that Carroll defamed him when she appeared on CNN the morning after the jury awarded her $5 million in damages. Carroll was asked about the verdict finding Trump sexually abused Carroll but did not rape her as she alleged. Carroll said, “Oh, yes he did.”

In response to the new claim, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said in a statement, “Donald Trump again argues, contrary to both logic and fact, that he was exonerated by a jury that found that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.”

She added, “Trump’s filing is thus nothing more than his latest effort to delay accountability for what a jury has already found to be his defamation of E. Jean Carroll. But whether he likes it or not, that accountability is coming very soon.

Video below: How key piece of Trump deposition likely led jury to find him liable of sexual abuse

The counter claim is the latest legal salvo in a multi-year legal battle between Trump and Carroll. Carroll first sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he denied her allegation that he raped her in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman. Trump said he didn’t know Carroll and that she wasn’t his type.

She sued him again last year under a New York law that allowed a one-year window for civil lawsuits for survivors of sexual assault no matter when they occurred. Trump has moved for a new trial.

The 2019 defamation lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial next year, although there are still several legal issues outstanding. Carroll is seeking more than $10 million in damages in that case in part because Trump repeated statements the jury found to be defamatory after the verdict on social media and at a CNN town hall.

Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll for defamation

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