Trump Sued For Attacking Assault Victim On Live TV

Weeks off her courtroom victory over former President Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll is again seeking “very substantial” damages after Trump mocked her during a CNN town hall earlier in the month, days after winning her sexual abuse and defamation case against the former president.

 


 

Earlier in the month, Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages after a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse. It was back in 2019 that Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman’s in New York City in the 1990s.

Trump quickly denied the allegations and launched brutal attacks on Carroll, over which she sued him for defamation. Carroll also filed a civil suit against the former president accusing him of rape.

Trump tore into Carroll during the town hall and called her allegations of sexual assault “fake” and a “made-up story.” “Ms. Carroll’s filing Monday in Manhattan federal court seeks to intensify the financial pain for Mr. Trump,” reported the New York Times, which added:

“Monday’s filing came in a separate defamation lawsuit that Ms. Carroll had filed in 2019 against Mr. Trump, 76, which is before the same judge who presided in the civil trial. The older case stemmed from comments Mr. Trump made that year, shortly after she said that he had raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. That lawsuit had been sidetracked by appeals, but is still pending.”

“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,” the filing says, referring to Trump’s insults directed at Carroll.

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