Judge allows writer E. Jean Carroll to ask Trump for more compensation for mockery on television

a judge of NY authorized this Tuesday the writer E.Jean Carroll to demand greater compensation for damages to the former president donald trump (2017-2021) for some mockery he dedicated to her on television in May, one day after losing a defamation trial against her.

federal judge lewis kaplanwho presided over that trial, today gave the green light for those recent comments to be included in another separate and prior defamation case, in which Carroll is claiming $10 million from the former president, according to local media.

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On May 9, after a civil trial, a jury sentenced Trump to pay compensation of 5 million dollars to Carroll for having sexually abused her years ago and for having later defamed her when she publicly denounced the facts.

The next day, at a CNN town hall meeting, Trump rejected the guilty verdict, said he did not know Carroll, reiterated that his story was “falseand called hercrazy” amid applause and laughter from an audience made up mainly of his supporters.

Following those televised taunts on CNN, on May 22 Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplanpetitioned the court to modify a 2019 defamation case against Trump, different from the one in the won trial, in order to include those comments.

The lawyer then indicated that her client was looking for a “very substantial punitive damages“After Trump”repeat many of the scurrilous comments for which the jury had just found him responsible the day before”, according to the documents.

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Trump has tried to get the judge to throw out that 2019 defamation case, which concerns similar comments he made while he was president and is stalled on appeal.

Trump’s judicial problems have been accumulating in recent weeks, and this same Tuesday he appeared in a court of Miami to plead not guilty to 37 federal crimes in the case of the official classified documents found at his home in Florida.

Source: Elcomercio

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