New York Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan said Trump’s claim had no merit and that Carroll’s statements repeating the claim that Trump had raped her were „substantially true“ given a jury’s verdict.
A federal judge in New York dismissed former President Donald Trump’s countersuit against writer E. Jean Carroll, dealing yet another blow to Trump’s ever-growing legal woes.
Trump and his legal team claimed that the former magazine writer defamed him when she said that he raped her on CNN.
Carroll made these comments during an interview after she won one of her lawsuits against the former president in May. The jury in that case found Trump liable for battery and defamation. Jurors found he did sexually abuse the writer and defamed her when he denied her allegation. Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages.
When Carroll was asked by CNN about the verdict finding Trump didn’t rape her as defined under New York law she responded, „Oh, yes he did.“
For that, Trump sued the writer back in June.
