NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 25: Magazine Columnist E. Jean Carroll leaves after the first day of her civil trial against former President Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court on April 25, 2023 in New York City. Jury selections begin in the Carroll civil trial against the former president, which she alleges attacked and sexually assaulted her in a dressing room of a luxury department store in the 1990s. The lawsuit comes after the passage of the Adult Survivors Act, a 2022 New York law that gave a one-year window beginning in November of that year for people to sue their alleged assailants even if the statute of limitations had expired, which had happened in Carroll’s case. The former president has stated that this never happened and has denied meeting her. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
E. Jean Carroll is seeking damages for “vile” comments made by former President Donald Trump in a CNN Town Hall. Carroll, an author and advice columnist, recently won $5 million in damages from a civil sexual assault and defamation case against Donald Trump.
Trump was asked about the Manhattan jury’s verdict during the Town Hall on May 10. He described Carroll, who sued the former president for sexually assaulting her in the 1990s, as a “wack job” and said the trial was a “rigged deal.” The comments came a day after the Manhattan jury ruled against Trump.
Carroll expressed disgust over the comments. “It’s just stupid, it’s just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people,” Carroll said in an interview with The New York Times. She mulled over suing Trump again and ultimately filed the amended complaint this week. She seeks $10 million for Trump’s comments at the Town Hall.
The day before the Town Hall, Trump fled to Truth Social to rant about the “political witch hunt” of the jury’s verdict.
Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter!
A week of political news in your in-box.
We find the news you need to know, so you don't have to.
“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS,” Trump wrote on the social media site. “THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!”
This is the third time Carroll is suing the former president.
https://youtu.be/vgVwXg0Ki4Q In an exclusive interview with uPolitics, Julie Johnson, the Democratic nominee for Texas's 32nd…
Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign reluctantly agreed to mute her and former President Donald Trump's…
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi denied claims that she urged President Joe Biden…
Vice President Kamala Harris told a campaign rally crowd in Las Vegas that she would…
Texas has removed over one million people from their voter rolls in an alleged attempt…
Former President Donald Trump announced he would vote to uphold Florida’s six-week abortion ban in…