Donald Trump Sues Writer E. Jean Carroll After Losing Defamation Trial

The former president of USA, donald trump filed a defamation lawsuit against the writer and journalist E.Jean Carrollwhich last May won a defamation trial against the former president.

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According to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday night, attorneys for Trump they maintain that Carroll defamed the businessman during an interview he gave last May to CNN the morning after a court sentenced him to compensate her with 5 million dollars by the tycoon, reported the CNN channel.

Carroll was questioned about the verdict, which holds that Trump sexually abused herbut that he did not rape her as she claims, to which the journalist replied: “If he did”.

This complaint occurs after on June 13 a judge of NY authorized the writer to claim greater compensation for damages from the former president Trump for some mockery he dedicated to her on television in May, a day after losing a defamation trial against her.

federal judge lewis kaplanwho presided over that trial, then gave the go-ahead for those recent comments to be included in a separate and prior defamation case, in which Carroll claims 10 million dollars to the former president.

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

The next day, at a meeting with citizens organized by CNN, Trump rejected the guilty verdict, said not to know Carrollreiterated 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 case dated 2019 for defamation against Trumpdifferent from that of the trial won, in order to include those comments.

Trump has tried to get the judge to dismiss that 2019 defamation case, that it refers to similar comments he made while he was president and that it is paralyzed in an appeal process.

Source: Elcomercio

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