Federal judge Lewis Kaplan has dismissed former President Donald Trump’s counter-defamation lawsuit against rape accuser E Jean Carroll, arguing bizarrely that Carroll’s claim that Trump penetrated her with his fingers is enough to substantiate the claim on Monday. Kaplan also rejected Trump’s request for a new trial in July.
“The jury’s verdict in Carroll II establishes, as against Mr Trump, the fact that Mr Trump ‘raped her’, albeit digitally rather than with his penis. Thus, it establishes against him the substantial truth of Ms Carroll’s ‘rape’ accusations,” Judge Kaplan explained.
“In consequence, there is no merit to Mr Trump’s argument that the jury’s finding on Penal Law ‘rape’ question established that Ms Carroll’s statements were false even if her statements reasonably could be construed as referring to ‘rape’ in that specialized Penal Law sense,” Kaplan added.
Trump’s legal proceedings appertained statements made by Carroll on CNN after the jury’s decision. Although the court cleared the former President of rape, she insisted once again that he raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York, stating: “Oh yes he did, oh yes he did.”
Carroll has already filed further legal proceedings in New York, seeking another $10 million for defamation. The trial is scheduled to take place on January 15 next year.
KEY QUOTE: “Parents are urged to talk with their children about the dangers of using vapes with THC which contain potentially 
FLASHBACK:
