US federal judge Kaplan found that Trump’s statements were intended to tarnish Carroll’s reputation.
United States federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan decided on Wednesday that the US ex-president Donald Trump is a guilty journalist-writer by E. Jean Carroll to defamation with his 2019 comments.
Among other things, the news covered the matter BBC.
Kaplan ruled Wednesday that E. Jean Carroll’s second civil lawsuit against Donald Trump will deal only with damages for that nuisance.
Carroll first accused Trump of sexual misconduct in his New York Magazine article in 2019. The January 2024 trial will deal with Trump’s comments on Carroll’s accusations.
In May, a jury found Trump guilty of sexually abusing Carroll in 1996. Only a day after the verdict, Trump appeared on CNN channel taunting Carroll.
– This woman [E Jean Carroll], I do not know him. I’ve never met him. I have no idea who she is, Trump and called her a wack job.
In a civil trial in May, a jury also found that Trump defamed Carroll when he called her a fraud on social media. Trump was ordered to pay Carroll a total of five million dollars.
The trial to be held next January is separate from the charges that were discussed last May in New York. Carroll filed a separate defamation suit against Trump over comments made following Trump’s previous trial.
In his ruling on Wednesday in Carroll’s second defamation trial, Judge Kaplan said the May ruling showed that Trump’s statements were made with intent to injure and were intended to tarnish Carroll’s reputation.
The judge’s decision means that the second civil defamation trial of Carroll, to be held in January, will focus only on the damages that Trump is required to pay Carroll for the damage caused by his statements.