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Trump town hall slurs against E. Jean Carroll ‘definitely actionable,’ lawyer says
The Hill ^ | 05/16/2023 | JULIA MUELLER

Posted on 05/16/2023 9:19:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer says former President Trump’s comments bashing Carroll during his recent CNN town hall are “definitely actionable” after a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse against her.

“So it’s definitely actionable. And here the cruelty will make him less wealthy. He is not going to get away with it another time,” attorney Roberta Kaplan said on MSNBC’s “The Interview,” appearing alongside Carroll.

“It’s unprecedented for a person to have been held liable in defamation to keep doing the defamation, so there are not a lot of cases that we can look to for a playbook about how to do it,” she said. “But, suffice to say, I have a lot of lawyers who are very busy looking into this, and we are weighing all of our options.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: carroll; harassment; persecution; slurs; townhall; trump
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I am so sick of this money loving skank
1 posted on 05/16/2023 9:19:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

By skank, do you mean the woman, or the lawyers, or both?


2 posted on 05/16/2023 9:23:07 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If they couldn’t prove rape...which meant being in a certain place at a certain time...how the hell did they prove sexual abuse??


3 posted on 05/16/2023 9:23:31 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

All of the above


4 posted on 05/16/2023 9:24:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

yeah because god forbid Trump say that this broad is a liar but its A OK for her to slander him and call him a rapist that’s fine


5 posted on 05/16/2023 9:25:04 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In a U.K. court perhaps, but not in the U.S. where the bar on slander is much higher.


6 posted on 05/16/2023 9:25:49 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What did Trump say that was not true?


7 posted on 05/16/2023 9:26:07 AM PDT by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Exactly! Trump should counter-sue her for slandering him!


8 posted on 05/16/2023 9:27:21 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Would probably be kind of difficult since she is now a public figure.


9 posted on 05/16/2023 9:30:16 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why does she need a lot of lawyers to look into ‘actionable slurs’?

One lawyer with credibility and knowledge of the law, should be enough. Methinks the lawyer is just playing scare tactics against Trump. Trump doesn’t scare easy, so, she thinks a lot of lawyers will do the trick.


10 posted on 05/16/2023 9:32:22 AM PDT by adorno
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To: Sacajaweau

I don’t understand why he’s liable for defamation just for declaring his innocence, when the jury didn’t find him liable for rape in the first place.


11 posted on 05/16/2023 9:33:28 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How can Carroll be so proud of our legal system...when they made a special “temporary” NYS law for her which set aside any statute of limitations.


12 posted on 05/16/2023 9:34:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: farmguy

That was my first thought also.


13 posted on 05/16/2023 9:35:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s very gonna pay her squat.


14 posted on 05/16/2023 9:38:45 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

*By skank, do you mean the woman, or the lawyers, or both?*

Loser pays. problem solved.


15 posted on 05/16/2023 9:40:57 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You’re just never supposed to speak ill of a Democrat. That’s criminal behavior.


16 posted on 05/16/2023 9:42:13 AM PDT by cotton1706
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If they couldn’t prove rape...which meant being in a certain place at a certain time...how the hell did they prove sexual abuse??


Not a lawyer, but it was a civil case, not a criminal case. The burden of proof is something like 51% that the abuse could have happened. And the judge instructed the NYC jury that a ‘peck on the cheek’ would constitute sexual abuse.


17 posted on 05/16/2023 9:44:20 AM PDT by hanamizu
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In New York, they’d indict Trump for eating a ham sammich..


18 posted on 05/16/2023 9:45:52 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump can sue them in Florida. I suggest 100 million.


19 posted on 05/16/2023 9:55:58 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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E. Jean Carrol = Maureen Dowd = slut


20 posted on 05/16/2023 10:05:39 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.)
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