Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump appears on stage and reacts to supporters during the Get Out the Vote rally in Richmond, Virginia on March 2, 2024.
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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that author E. Jean Carroll made “completely false accusations” against him. Despite losing a defamation lawsuit in January over similar claims.
Campaign at President Trump’s rally in Rome, Georgia Mentioned $91.6 million bond. He is facing a deadline to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages for defaming her in remarks he made as president after he denied her accusation that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. I posted it on March 8th, the day before.
After Carroll first came forward with sexual assault claims against Trump in 2019, a separate civil trial was held in May 2023, in which a New York jury found that the former president did not sexually abuse Carroll, but He admitted that he did not commit rape.
President Trump said, “I just posted $91 million in bail. I paid $91 million based on a completely fabricated story,” and that the verdict was “based on false accusations about me by a woman I never knew.” It was something,” he added. I don’t know her, I’ve never heard of her, I don’t know anything about her. ”
The 77-year-old made similar remarks in a June 22, 2019 statement to MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin. Posted in X It included a document in which President Trump denied knowing “who this woman is.”
“If she wrote a book and said something and I denied it and I said, ‘That’s insane, that’s false,’ she would sue me for defamation,” Trump said on Saturday. Ta. New York Adult Survivor LawThis lifted the state’s statute of limitations for one year, allowing victims of sexual assault to sue regardless of how long ago the alleged abuse occurred.
“They changed the law to allow women to return without limit… Then she came back and said, maybe it’s the mid-’90s, I don’t know,” he said. said.
In addition to the $83.3 million in damages, Carroll was awarded $5 million in a sexual abuse and defamation judgment she won against Trump last year. In February, the former president was also ordered to pay. $464 million He plans to appeal all three verdicts in a separate fraud case against Trump and his company’s executives.
Trump also expressed concern about federal judge Lewis Kaplan, who denied his request to delay a defamation judgment, calling him “Trump’s crazy, angry man.” .
Carroll’s legal team and the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to CNBC’s requests for comment.
