Writer E. Jean Carroll has filed yet another claim against former President Donald Trump, seeking $10 million more in compensatory damages for remarks made during a recent CNN town hall.
Trump, currently on the hook for $5m to Carroll, called the whack job a “whack job” during his interview with CNN and said that her accusations were “fake” and a “made-up story.”
Carroll’s #MeToo attorney, Robert Kaplan, filed the lawsuit on Monday, May 22, announcing that Carroll would be seeking “very substantial punitive damages award” for Trump’s comments.
Trump’s comments “show the depth of his malice toward Carroll, since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will or spite,” Kaplan added.
Carroll, whose allegations against Trump are notably similar to a subplot of a Law and Order episode that aired in late 2012 and who has previously written about having sex with the former President seven years before her allegations were made public, told The New York Times regarding his rebuttal of the allegations: “It’s just stupid, it’s just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people.”
The political persecution of Donald Trump will also continue today as he is due to appear in court by video for his second hearing in the Melvin Bragg criminal case.
UPDATE: TRUMP ISSUES STATEMENT.
Donald Trump posted to his Truth social channel on Tuesday morning: “I don’t know E. Jean Carroll, I never met her or touched her (except on a celebrity line with her African American husband who she disgustingly called the “Ape,”), I wouldn’t want to know or touch her, I never abused her or raped her or took her to a dressing room 25 years ago in a crowded department store where the doors are LOCKED, she has no idea when, or did anything else to her, except deny her Fake, Made Up Story, that she wrote in a book. IT NEVER HAPPENED, IS A TOTAL SCAM, UNFAIR TRIAL!”
The former President went on: “The Carroll case is part of the Democrats playbook to tarnish my name and person, much like the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the 51 Intelligence Agents, FBI/Twitter Files, and so much more. It is being funded and tried by Democrat operatives, although this was denied by them, and when they got caught in the lie, the Clinton appointed judge would not let us use it in trial. Time will prove him to be highly partisan & very unfair. Where’s the dress she said she had?”