Carroll's lawyers just filed a motion in the first lawsuit asking for more damages in view of Trump's recent statements on CNN.
>>>E. Jean Carroll, who this month won $5 million in damages from former President Donald J. Trump, is now seeking a “very substantial” additional amount in response to his insults on a CNN program just a day after she won her sexual abuse and defamation case. . . .
Monday’s filing came in a
separate defamation lawsuit that Ms. Carroll filed in 2019 against Mr. Trump, 76, which is before the same judge who presided in the civil trial. That case stemmed from comments Mr. Trump made that year, shortly after Ms. Carroll said that he had raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. The suit has been sidetracked by appeals and is still pending. . . .
Ms. Carroll’s lawyer, Ms. Kaplan, said in an interview Monday that Mr. Trump’s statements on CNN made pursuing the pending defamation lawsuit all the more important.
“It makes a mockery of the jury verdict and our justice system if he can just keep on repeating the same defamatory statements over and over again,” Ms. Kaplan said.<<<
The former president’s repeated denials that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll “show the depth of his malice” and merit heavy damages, her lawyer wrote.
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