Posted on 09/06/2023 11:01:31 AM PDT by thegagline
Former President Donald Trump is on the hook for damages in E. Jean Carroll’s upcoming trial accusing him of defaming her by claiming she made up her sexual abuse allegations against him, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Trump’s 2019 claim that the 79-year-old “Ask E. Jean” advice columnist had concocted the abuse charges “to get publicity” was a lie made with “actual malice,” Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote.
Kaplan in his ruling cited a Manhattan federal jury’s May verdict finding Trump, 77, liable for sexual abuse and defamation — and ordering him to pay $5 million in damages — in a separate lawsuit brought by Carroll, who accused him of raping her inside Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s.
The Wednesday decision is a major defeat for Trump in the case, and leaves the question of how much in damages the former president will be ordered to pay as the only open issue to be determined at trial. Kaplan also rejected Trump’s bid to limit the damages award in the upcoming case because of the $5 million he was already ordered to pay.
That case in part stemmed on Trump’s claim — which jurors found to be false — on the social media app Truth Social in 2022 that Carroll’s allegation was “a complete con job.”
Trump’s efforts to limit damages in the upcoming case over his 2019 statements are completely “without merit,” Kaplan wrote.
Manhattan jurors in May found that the “preponderance of the evidence” shows that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the Fifth Avenue department store in the 1990s, Kaplan said in his ruling.
The May verdict also shows that jurors “determined by clear and convincing evidence that Ms. Carroll did not fabricate her sexual assault accusation,” the judge added. ***
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When will Tara Reade file a lawsuit against Biden?
American Justice in action. Pathetic
A Clinton judge, surprise!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A._Kaplan
NY Judge NY jury
When she files and not a moment sooner. It’s in her court.
Yep, doesn’t want the dinner party invites to stop.
maybe she can take the stage for her five minutes of fame right next to tawana brawley eh?
Trump may have been innocent on the first trial, but after losing that case, coming out the very next day and defaming her again was completely idiotic.
He should have attacked the court and the decision, not do exactly what he had just been found guilty of, again.
Bet he keeps his mouth shut this time though.
She lies about a rape and jurors have no proof or evidence and rule in her favor. They use that fraudulent result to further allow this lawsuit.
All out of NYC, which is crazy.
I'm glad no FReeper in his or her right mind believes this.
Justice is dead in NYC.
How many employees in NYC get a paycheck sign by Trump????
RE: Justice is dead in NYC.
True.
People should try for a change of venue to a better place like North Korea, Iran or Pakistan.
Don’t you have to have fame before you can be defamed?
he won’t this time either.
He didn’t defame anyone. This isn’t justice. Certainly not the rule of law. Continuing to speak out is stubbornly exercising your rights. Good for him.
When does this fraud case get appealed and thrown out. She couldn’t even say what year it supposedly didn’t happen in.
what does that picture show? How happy she was to meet him?
And?
She said she has been threatened and is in fear of her life.
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