Then-President Donald Trump “unleashed his followers’’ on E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sex abuse — including some who said she should be raped and killed, her lawyer contended Tuesday.
Then-President Donald Trump “unleashed his followers’’ on E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sex abuse — including some who said she should be raped and killed, her lawyer contended Tuesday.
“How much money will it take to make him stop? Because he has not stopped,” Carroll’s lawyer, Shawn Crowley, told a Manhattan federal jury in opening statements at Trump’s second defamation trial involving the plaintiff.
The former president, 77, was already ordered at a previous trial to pay $5 million to the “Ask E. Jean” advice columnist after the jurors found him liable of sexually abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room in 1996 and then defaming her after she went public about the alleged attack in 2019.
This latest defamation case involves similar comments Trump made against Carroll in 2022.
A judge already ruled that Trump defamed Carroll in 2022. This case is just about how much he should pay her for it. Her camp is seeking more than $10 million.
“He was president,” Crowley said of comments Trump made allegedly egging on his loyalists against Carroll. “And when he spoke, the world listened.
“He had the biggest microphone on the planet.
