Posted on 06/13/2023 2:36:10 PM PDT by DFG
A judge on Tuesday said E. Jean Carroll, the New York writer who won a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump last month, can pursue a separate $10 million defamation lawsuit against the former U.S. president.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan ruled in favor of the former Elle magazine columnist, after Trump had argued that the defamation case must be dismissed because jurors had concluded he never raped her.
A spokeswoman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba was in Miami, where Trump pleaded not guilty in a separate case to federal criminal charges that he mishandled classified files.
On May 9, a Manhattan jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $2 million for battery and $3 million for defamation, after Carroll accused him of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and Trump in October 2022 denied that accusation.
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I hear Jeb is available.
Idiot.
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We've gone full soviet. Not hyperbole.
I hope that Trump is pursuing the Judge in a higher court. Time to start going hard against the corrupt judges.
She’s said things that are manifestly crazy.
If I point that out will she sue me?
She is now a public figure, so how can she sue anybody?
I hope he countersues.
Wow. The left must be really scared of Trump...
NO.
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