by the associated press: E Jean Carroll, advice columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award A court filing on Monday (local time) is seeking at least $10 million more, against former President Donald Trump that seeks to hold him liable for comments made after the verdict.
The amended lawsuit was filed in Manhattan by Carroll’s attorneys, who said Trump “repeatedly” made derogatory remarks about the former Elle magazine columnist during a cable television appearance a day after the verdict.
Regarding Trump’s remarks at the CNN town hall, he wrote, “It is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, malice or malice.” “This conduct warrants a very significant punitive damages award in favor of Carroll to punish Trump, deter him from engaging in further defamation, and deter others from doing the same.”
Two weeks ago, a nine-person jury decided Trump sexually assaulted Carroll At a Manhattan department store in the early spring of 1996. It also found that Trump made false statements that damaged his reputation after going public with his allegations in a 2019 book.
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During the trial, Carroll testified that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room. Trump, who is campaigning for the presidency, did not attend or testify at the trial.
The jury decided that Carroll had not proved that she was raped, but found that Trump had sexually assaulted her. Trump has denied that the attack took place. He accused Carroll of helping him sell his book.
Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina declined to comment on the new legal claim.
Carroll’s defamation claims against Trump have progressed in two separate lawsuits, one decided in a trial that just ended, and another that previously only dealt with libelous comments Trump made while president in 2019.
That lawsuit, which is still tied up in unresolved legal appeals, is one in which Carroll, 79, has added his new claims.
Carroll’s lawyers asked for a quick resolution “while she remains in good health and before Donald Trump’s time and attention is completely consumed by his presidential campaign”.
A spokeswoman for the US government’s attorneys declined to comment.
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Carroll’s lawyers said that “Trump was motivated by purely personal reasons rather than presidential or official reasons,” adding that “Carroll was too unattractive for him to sexually assault her, falsely stating that Carroll had previously sexually assaulted others.” had filed false allegations of sexual misconduct against men, and invented an unsubstantiated narrative that Carroll did this for money, to promote a book, or to further a political conspiracy – as support for those claims. Accused without pointing out an iota.
In the new claim, Carroll’s attorneys said that Trump, “unfazed by the jury’s decision, continued to maliciously defame Carroll again” on the CNN program.
He reiterated his earlier defamatory statements, telling viewers that ‘I have never met this woman. I have never seen this woman,’ that he had not sexually assaulted Carroll, and that his account – which was validated by a jury of Trump’s cronies just the day before – was a ‘fake’, ‘made up story’ invented by a ‘severe beating.’ Those statements resulted in enthusiastic cheers and applause from viewers on live TV , ”wrote the lawyers.
He said, “Trump used a national platform to demean and mock Carroll. When he made light of his violent sexual assault, which called out Carroll’s name, the audience laughed, including implied that Carroll was asking for assault, and overruled the jury’s verdict which acquitted Carroll.
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