Former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Gene Carroll watches former President Donald Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina deliver closing arguments in a civil trial. In this civil trial, Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and defamation, New York, May 8, 2023.
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Donald Trump filed the following notice on Thursday: bring the action A federal civil jury verdict this week found the former president responsible for sexual abuse and defamation charges against author E. Gene Carroll.
Trump’s attorneys also said they would ask the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to drop the order ordering Carroll to pay $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages in the lawsuit.
Also on Thursday, Carroll’s lawyer said: new york times She launched a new defamation lawsuit against Trump the night before, saying at CNN Town Hall that her claim that she was raped by Trump in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the 1990s was “false.” He said he was considering starting a
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, told The Times, “We’ll have to weigh the pros and cons, and a decision will probably be made in the next day or so.”
If Carroll, 79, files a new lawsuit, it will be the third defamation lawsuit against Trump.
The second lawsuit was settled Tuesday after a jury in Manhattan’s federal district court held less than three hours of deliberation, finding that he had molested her and defamed her last fall.
The first lawsuit, which alleges that Trump defamed her during her presidency after she went public about her rape in 2019, is whether Trump can be held accountable for her remarks while in the White House. has been effectively put on hold pending court arguments.
Trump’s appeal notice was filed Thursday, less than an hour after the final judgement Part of the jury’s verdict was entered in Manhattan court records.
A jury on Tuesday found there was no overwhelming evidence that Trump raped Carroll. However, her discovery that he likely molested her was enough to sustain her civil assault claim.
Trump is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
President Trump mocked Carroll at the CNN-hosted New Hampshire City Hall on Wednesday night, drawing laughter and cheers from the audience. President Trump called Carroll a “horrible job” at City Hall and reiterated that her account of the incident was “false.”
“She wasn’t raped, was she?” Trump said. “And I didn’t do anything else, okay, because I don’t know who the hell she is.”
