Trump Countersues E. Jean Carroll, Claiming She Defamed Him This Time
Former President Donald J. Trump, who has been found liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, has countersued, accusing her of defaming him in turn by repeating her contention that he had raped her.
Last month, a federal jury of six men and three women found that Ms. Carroll, 79, a former magazine columnist, had proved that Mr. Trump sexually abused her nearly 30 years ago in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. The jury did not, however, find he had raped her, as she had long claimed.
During a CNN interview on May 10, one day after the verdict in that civil trial, Ms. Carroll was asked about the jury’s finding that he did not commit rape, which requires proof of penile penetration.
“Oh yes he did, oh yes he did,” she said.
Mr. Trump, 77, who is seeking the presidency again, said in court papers filed late Tuesday in Federal District Court in Manhattan that Ms. Carroll was wrong to repeat that contention after the jury’s decision that he had sexually abused her, a lesser form of misconduct.
Source: The New York Times
