A new lawsuit has been filed by former columnist E. Jean Carroll, in which former US President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $5 million after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting her. The new action against him was filed for defamation due to the statements he made after the decision was issued.
“She’s crazy,” the 2024 Republican presidential nominee said on CNN a day after the May 9 unanimous decision by nine New York jurors.
During this show, in the presence of an audience who also addressed questions to Trump, the former president repeated that he has “never met” the former Elle magazine columnist and again spoke of “a fabricated story”.
The statements made by Trump “after the announcement of the decision, they demonstrate the depth of his malice towards Carol”, her lawyers state in the new lawsuit, according to international agencies and the Athens News Agency. Carroll is seeking damages “in order to punish Trump” but also “to prevent him from engaging in other defamatory actions and to prevent other people from doing the same.”
A day before the CNN broadcast, the 45th president of the United States had been found guilty of sexually assaulting the columnist, who accused him of raping her in a fitting room at the Bergdorf Goodman store in New York in the spring of 1996.
Jurors also found Trump guilty of defamation for statements he made in 2022 and ordered him to pay a total of $5 million to Carroll. Trump has appealed.
Source: News Beast
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