After being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse allegations by E. Jean Carroll, former President Donald Trump continues to deny the claims. Trump recently spoke at a rally in Georgia, asserting, “I just posted a $91 million bond on a fake story, totally made-up story.”
He emphasized his lack of familiarity with Carroll, stating, “I knew nothing about her, didn’t know, never heard of her.” In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Trump said several civil court judgments against him in New York — two of them in Carroll’s favor — will cause companies to leave the state.
“People aren’t moving into New York because of the kind of crap they’re pulling on me,” he said. “They’re the most ridiculous decisions,” Trump added, “including the’ Ms. Bergdorf Goodman,’ a person I’d never met.”
“I have no idea who she is, except one thing: I got sued,” he said in Monday’s interview. “From that point on, I said, ‘Wow, that’s crazy, what this is.'”
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MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that the punitive judgment in the case appears only to have been “enough to make him stop until he was past a point that the judge could no longer order… further consequences for it.” “The fact strikes me… he said these things the night after he posted a bond and filed his notice of appeal, which the judge has long since finalized,” Rubin continued.
“Should E. Jean Carroll and her team want any further relief now, their only option is to file another case,” she added. “The punitive damage was as great as it was because Donald Trump kept saying it after the initial judgment. The argument they made was that the first award did not deter him and continued to say it again and again and again.”
While Trump’s denial persists, Carroll’s pursuit of justice remains undeterred. The legal saga continues, with each twist and turn shaping the narrative of accountability and resilience.
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Rubin said Carroll’s recourse is to “sue again or at the very least to oppose the bond, which is an option that Judge [Lewis] Kaplan gave them.”
George Conway, an attorney and leading Trump critic who encouraged Carroll to file her first defamation suit against him, tweeted Monday that the former president had opened himself up to a third lawsuit.
“The fact that Trump libeled @ejeancarroll on @CNBC @SquawkCNBC is highly significant for a procedural reason in addition to a substantive one,” Conway wrote in his post on the social media site X.
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Because Trump’s remarks were made on the CNBC show broadcast from Manhattan, Carroll “likely may now sue” in the same federal court where she filed her first two lawsuits against him, Conway wrote in his post on the social media site X.
“If she does that, the case would be assigned to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan as a case related to the earlier two cases that produced $88.3 million in damages awards,” Conway wrote. The judge is not related to Carroll’s lawyer.
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