The writer who won her civil suit against the ex-president earlier this month wants another $10 million for new defamatory remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remember earlier this month, when a jury found\u2002Donald Trump\u2002liable<\/a> for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, and ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages? And then, literally one day later, he went on CNN and defamed her some more<\/a>, insisting, \u201cThis is a fake story, a made-up story\u201d? At the time, Trump probably assumed there would be no blowback for his remarks given that\u2014with the excerption of the verdict a day prior\u2014he\u2019s basically never been held accountable for anything in his life, including the lies that came out of his mouth on a near-daily basis. But in a happy twist, that is no longer the case!<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Monday, Carroll amended<\/a> her lawsuit against the ex-president, arguing that he reiterated the false and derogatory remarks he initially made about her, which led to the original suit. \u201cHe doubled down on his prior defamatory statements, asserting to an audience all too ready to cheer him on that \u2018I never met this woman. I never saw this woman,\u2019 that he did not sexually assault Carroll, and that her account\u2014which had just been validated by a jury of Trump\u2019s peers one day before\u2014was a \u2018fake,\u2019 \u2018made-up story\u2019 invented by a \u2018whack job,\u2019\u201d Carroll\u2019s lawyers wrote. \u201cThose statements resulted in enthusiastic cheers and applause from the audience on live TV.\u201d The attorneys added, \u201cTrump used a national platform to demean and mock Carroll. He egged on a laughing audience as he made light of his violent sexual assault, called Carroll names, implied that Carroll was asking to be assaulted, and dismissed the jury\u2019s verdict vindicating Carroll.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The minimum of $10 million in additional damages, Carroll\u2019s legal team wrote, is meant to \u201cboth to punish Trump, to deter him from engaging in further defamation, and to deter others from doing the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the trial, Carroll testified that Trump had attacked her in a department store in the mid-\u201990s. Trump chose to neither testify nor attend the proceedings. But in a fully insane taped deposition, which was played for the jury, he doubled down<\/a> on his remarks on the infamous Access Hollywood tape; when asked about his claim that it was okay to grab someone\u2019s genitals without their permission if \u201dyou\u2019re a star,\u201d he responded\u2014in the midst of a deposition about allegedly raping someone\u2014\u201cIf you look over the last million years, that\u2019s been largely true, not always but largely true, unfortunately or fortunately.\u201d When asked about his claim that several other women who\u2019ve accused him of sexual assault were not his \u201ctype,\u201d Trump told Carroll\u2019s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t be a choice of mine either, to be honest\u2026I wouldn\u2019t in any circumstances have any interest in you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joe Tacopina, the attorney who represented Trump at trial, declined the Associated Press\u2019s request for comment on the new claim. For his part, Trump took to Truth Social today to comment on the case and seemingly defame Carroll once again, writing<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t 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 \u201cApe,\u201d), I wouldn\u2019t 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!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seems like that should be worth at least another $5 million!<\/p>\n\n\n\n